Ship REST APIs from your database.
The gateway manages auth, routing, and configuration.
Portway is a Melosso open source REST API gateway for Windows Server, exposing SQL databases as endpoints with built-in auth, rate limiting, and caching.
What Portway does
Multiple endpoint types
SQL Server CRUD, proxy, composite (chained operations), static files, and webhooks. Each defined as a JSON configuration file.
OData query support
Filter, sort, paginate, and select fields on SQL endpoints using standard OData query parameters.
Built-in security
Machine-bound token authentication, Azure Key Vault integration, and encryption for all sensitive configuration data.
Auto-generated API docs
Scalar documentation generated at startup from endpoint definitions and the database schema.
What you can connect
- SQL
- Proxy
- Composite
- Static
- Files
- Webhooks
Portway: Built for the Systems You Can't Replace
How a recurring ERP integration problem became an open-source API gateway, built and validated on a production Globe+ installation.
License and availability
Portway is free and open source, released under the EUPL-1.2 license. It runs on IIS / Windows Server and Docker, and the full source code is available on GitHub. Use it, adapt it, and share it; there are no usage tiers and no features held back.