Thanks for getting back. Yep, we could start from PostgreSQL. Maybe APISIX can add support for more databases like HBase and MongoDB.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 5:17 PM Sheng Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > This seems very interesting. Are you planning to start from PostgreSQL as > well? > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > > > Joey Ma <[email protected]> 于2021年3月24日周三 下午5:03写道： > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm writing here to hope to discuss with you guys about a new feature. > It's > > about to support exposing databases as web services. > > > > Please allow me to introduce my case. I'm now constructing a sort of data > > middle platform and use APISIX as the API gateway to handle the NS > traffic. > > One of the scenarios is to expose data stored in the database as web > > services, mainly list/create/update/delete operations, for outer clients. > > As for now, we need to deploy an application for database access and then > > set it as the upstream of a route. For example, we use > PostgREST/postgrest > > [1] to serve RESTful APIs for Postgresql and make APSIX as the proxy. > > > > I believe that If APISIX can have this feature built-in, it will bring > much > > convenience, so I was wondering if APISIX is able to add support for > > auto-exposing the database as uniform RESTful web services. If that, the > > only thing that users need to do is to fulfill the endpoint and > > credentials of the database and then we are happy to see the routes are > > generated and ready for access. > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you. Much appreciated. > > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest > > > > > > Best regards, > > Joey > > >
