DreamFactory
Turns any SQL/NoSQL/Structured data into Restful API.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 26% of tracked projects; popularity more than 46%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.8k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 7.7.1 · 24 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | PHP, Docker, K8S |
Is DreamFactory actively maintained?
DreamFactory is under active development: 83 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 11 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, 7.7.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
DreamFactory ranks #10 of 16 in Software Development - API Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What DreamFactory actually does
DreamFactory is a backend integration tool that automatically generates RESTful application programming interfaces from existing relational and non-relational data sources. It sits between your databases and your client applications, handling standard CRUD operations through standardised endpoints without requiring custom server-side routing code. The project is distributed under the Apache-2.0 licence and provides containerised deployment options.
Best fit: Teams that need to expose legacy database schemas quickly as web services for front-end developers without writing custom boilerplate endpoints from scratch.
Worth knowing: Exposing direct database interfaces over HTTP creates significant security risks if role-based access controls and rate limiting are not configured rigorously.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application packaged for Docker and Kubernetes, you will typically need to provision persistent storage for configuration data, place it behind a reverse proxy for TLS termination, and connect it to your target database backends.
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