Integrate any SQL or NoSQL database, file storage system, or external HTTP or SOAP service and DreamFactory instantly generates a flexible, comprehensive, and fully documented REST API endpoint that’s ready to use. Focus on building your applications, not hand-coding APIs for every new development project.
DreamFactory provides the most comprehensive REST API for SQL databases. Features include automatically generated REST endpoints for data, schema, functions, stored procedures, and API parameters for complex filters, pagination, sorting, related table joins, virtual foreign keys, calculations, aggregation, rollback, commit, and more.
Create virtual foreign key relationships between tables in the same database or between completely different databases without altering your schema or writing any code. Create, read, update, or delete objects and related objects with a single API call.
DreamFactory instantly turns any WSDL into a live, fully documented REST API. DreamFactory automatically converts the JSON request into SOAP, calls the legacy SOAP service, and then the SOAP response is converted back to JSON for the client application. DreamFactory also generates Live API Docs from the WSDL for testing.
Add business logic to your APIs to suit any business requirement. Supporting four scripting engines (NodeJS, PHP, Python, and V8JS), custom logic can be used to validate input parameters, transform responses to suit client requirements, and even call other APIs.
Securing APIs is difficult and time consuming. DreamFactory makes it easy with User Management, SSO Authentication, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), CORS, Role-Based Access Control on API endpoints, record-level permissions on data, OAuth, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML integration, and more.
DreamFactory is a privacy-by-design product engineered to fold in the governance safeguards to keep your data compliant for regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. Keep legal, audit, security and compliance departments happy while still delighting your engineering team with streamlined development.
Map Your PII
CRUD enables the right to be Forgotten and data portability
Logging enables access tracking, data breach reporting, privacy impact analysis
RBAC enables right of access, consent, and restriction of processing
Connect to machine learning and BI tools
DreamFactory automatically generates interactive API documentation for every connected data source. DreamFactory uses Swagger, the most popular open source project for API documentation. Live documentation allows you to try out different parameters and see the request and response before building an application. Learn more
The admin console makes it easy to centrally manage the entire DreamFactory Platform, including your catalog of REST APIs, applications, scripts, security settings, users, roles, and more. All of the administrative capabilities are also exposed as a REST API in case you need to automate repetitive tasks.
DreamFactory is a free, open source project that runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. DreamFactory is scalable, stateless, and portable. You can run it on private, public, or hybrid infrastructure and easily move your apps between servers. DreamFactory is easy to deploy with Docker, Kubernetes, Bitnami, or directly from GitHub source.
DreamFactory makes it easy to migrate your applications between development, test, and production environments. You can save a package file that stores all metadata settings for a specific application in JSON format. DreamFactory allows you to push package files between instances using either the REST API or the Admin Console for easy deployment.
DreamFactory makes it easy to centrally manage API limits across your entire organization. You can specify API rate limits at the instance, role, user, and endpoint level. Each DreamFactory instance is governed by API limits and automatically throttles API calls at runtime. API limits help protect against malicious attacks and manage costs at the critical API layer of your business.
DreamFactory comes with the popular ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) for logging and reporting on API traffic. Kibana provides flexible reporting on all API calls with pre-configured dashboards segmented by instance, application, role, user, API endpoint, and more.
DreamFactory makes it easy to publish your APIs for others to use. You can expose as many APIs and API keys as you need and apply flexible role-based access control to every API endpoint. DreamFactory makes it easy to API-enable your business with internal stakeholders, business partners, developers, end users, and anyone else who needs secure access to your API.
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