SpringBoot: SpringBoot Application Starters

Below is a quick summary of various SpringBoot Application Starters and their usage

Starter Name	Usage
spring-boot-starter	Core starter, including auto-configuration support, logging & YAML
spring-boot-starter-web	Web apps including RESTFul, Spring MVC, uses Tomcat as default container
spring-boot-starter-security	Spring Security
spring-boot-starter-data-rest	For exposing Spring Data repositories over REST using Spring Data Rest
spring-boot-starter-test	Testing applications using JUnit Jupiter, Mockito and Hamcrest
spring-boot-starter-jersey	Building RESTFul web applications using JAX-RS and Jersey (an alternative to spring-boot-starter-web)
spring-boot-starter-data-jdbc	Spring Data JDBC
spring-boot-starter-jdbc	JDBC with HikariCP connection pool
spring-boot-starter-oauth2-client	Using OAuth2/OpenID Connect client features
spring-boot-starter-oauth2-resource-server	Using Spring Security’s OAuth2 resource server feature
spring-boot-starter-json	Reading and writing JSON
spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb	MongoDB document-oriented DB and Spring Data MongoDB
spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-reactive	MongoDB document-oriented DB and Spring Data MongoDB Reactive
spring-boot-starter-mail	Using Java Mail and Spring Framework’s email sending support
spring-boot-starter-activemq	JMS messaging using Apache ActiveMQ
spring-boot-starter-amqp	Spring AMQF and RabbitMQ
spring-boot-starter-batch	Spring Batch
spring-boot-starter-quartz	Using Quartz scheduler
spring-boot-starter-cache	Spring Framework’s cache support
spring-boot-starter-validation	Spring Java Bean validation with Hibernate Validator
spring-boot-starter-data-ldap	Spring Data LDAP
spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch	Elasticsearch search, analytics engine and Spring Data Elasticsearch
spring-boot-starter-data-redis	Using Redis key-value data store and Spring Data Redis and Lettuce client
spring-boot-starter-data-redis-reactive	Redis key-value data store and Spring Data Redis reactive and Lettuce client
spring-boot-starter-freemarker	Build MVC web applications using FreeMarker views
spring-boot-starter-groovy-templates	Build MVC web applications using Groovy Template views
spring-boot-starter-mustache	Build web applications using Mustache views
spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf	Build MVC web applications using Thymeleaf views
spring-boot-starter-integration	Using Spring Integration
spring-boot-starter-jooq	Using JOOQ to access SQL DB. Alternative to spring-boot-starter-data-jpa and spring-boot-starter-jdbc
spring-boot-starter-jta-atomikos	JTA transactions using Atomikos
spring-boot-starter-rsocket	Building RSocket clients & servers
spring-boot-starter-webservices	Spring Web Services
spring-boot-starter-webflux	Building Webflux apps using Spring’s Reactive support
spring-boot-starter-websocket	Building WebSocket apps using Springs WebSocket support
spring-boot-starter-hateoas	Hypermedia based RESTFul web apps with Spring MVC & Spring HATEOAS
spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra	Cassandra distributed DB and Spring Data Cassandra
spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra-reactive	Cassandra distributed DB and Spring Data Cassandra Reactive
spring-boot-starter-artemis	JMS messaging using Apache Artemis
spring-boot-starter-aop	Aspect oriented programming using Spring AOP and AspectJ
spring-boot-starter-data-couchbase	Couchbase document oriented and Spring Data Couchbase
spring-boot-starter-data-couchbase-reactive	Couchbase document oriented and Spring Data Couchbase Reactive
spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j	Neo4j graph DB and Spring Data Neo4j
spring-boot-starter-data-r2dbc	Spring Data R2DBC
spring-boot-starter-actuator	Helps you monitor and manage your app