DreamFactory

Agile, robust and flexible, as it should be

What do you like best? The ease of connecting relational data sources with file systems and objects, generating understandable and extraneous powerful APIs in a few clicks, coupled with ACL control and triggered script processing in internal API events, is extremely scalable, run it all on the infrastructure provider I want. What do you dislike? Debugging scripts is not always easy, deploying role modifications also requires extra attention. A command line tool to represent ...

DreamFactory is like the Ruby on Rails for APIs

What do you like best? DreamFactory provides you commercially ready APIs instantly via what I guess you could call an API Framework. Many of the decisions are made for you, and intentionally so. Building APIs is mundane and involved, so a tool that moves you through this process fast by automatically providing best practices allows our team to focus on higher value add tasks. DreamFactory is also very lightweight and fast for a full lifecycle API Management tool. By that I mean that ...

Absolutely invaluable

What do you like best? DreamFactory has saved us countless development hours by providing an extremely easy way to bridge our data sources. Before we replaced our homegrown solution with DreamFactory, we constantly had to make code updates on our end. Now it all happens behind the scenes without any manual intervention. One feature that we didn't know existed at first is the abiliity to write you own transformation scripts/routines. You can think of it as a the "T" layer in a ETL ...

Great product, great support

What do you like best? Dreamfactory is super easy to configure new endpoints in. Connecting to both closed and open source dbms is easy and the consistent way of exposing endpoints take make libraries of code really easy to reuse. The support is also really good - often just a few second on chat. What do you dislike? The hardest part are the upgrades. For a mission critical app, downtime needs to be minimal. The upgrades certainly don't require much downtime, but it does .ean we ...

Easy and effective. Database integration in lightning speed

What do you like best? APIs are built for you - and not just any APIs. Fully documented, fully secured (OAuth, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML Integration...) and accessible through a 3rd party client. Very easy to import Active Directory. Very easy to create roles with appropriate limits. Logging functionality great as well. What do you dislike? UI isn't very pretty, but its an 11/10 on functionality, & productivity. Recommendations to others considering the product: ...

Simple API solution for tough DB access problem

What do you like best? Simplicity - DreamFactory's easy API solution to put on our db's makes life really easy. Gets us our data quickly and easily. What do you dislike? Honestly, there's not a lot I don't like. Things can always be a bit easier, a bit simpler, etc., but overall they do a great job. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Accessing our data in multiple random databases.

Build a REST API on any database with no coding!

What do you like best? The full documentation and testing features of the API Docs section of the software. It allows even a novice user to spin up Postman and start experimenting. It is truly one of the best features of the package. What do you dislike? Current pricing is a bit high for the enterprise level connections. Going from open-source and free to use to tens of thousands of dollars is a big wall to climb. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you ...

Will actually never need to build an API again

What do you like best? Fastest and easiest API Management tool my department has ever used. We used DreamFactory to build the REST APIs we needed for a series of projects and were able to save tens of thousands on the developer hours it would have taken otherwise. The UI is also very easy and made our particular use case involving turning SOAP services to REST a dream. Once we configured server side scripting it our SOAP to REST translation automatically for us. Support has been ...

Innovative DreamFactory

What do you like best? This tool is basically an open source platform, which offers different benefits that differentiate it from other similar software, for example; Security is critical and indispensable for APIs, but DreamFactory makes it easy enough for its users, it has specifications that applications must follow to communicate with each other, and the user interface facilitates human-software interaction. This tool has a type of API that turns out to be innovative, this because it ...

DreamFactory

What do you like best? The kind of ease with which it provides API automation capabilities is superb! It makes almost all the automation task free from much required very difficult and complex development activities. What do you dislike? There was once some issue while integrating data from mobile applications. However, it was resolved later and from then has been working fine. It might be some interface issues in the beginning. Recommendations to others considering the ...