Redis
MongoDB
ArangoDB
Apache Cassandra
CouchBase
memcached
OrientDB
neo4j
Cloudrix
supastarter
Makerkit
ShipFast.AI
SaaS Starter Kit
MailKit
LiteDB
Dapper
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius queries and streams. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.
Production-ready NestJS + Angular SaaS boilerplate with auth, Stripe payments, multi-tenancy,Docker, and Terraform. Free lite version on GitHub.
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Enterprise developers and agencies building B2B SaaS products with NestJS and Angular. Specifically: 1) Solo founder who want to launch an MVP in days instead of months. 2) Dev agencies starting client projects who need a production-ready foundation to bill for features, not setup. 3) Enterprise teams at companies already using Angular (BMW, Siemens, ING, Barclays) who need an internal tool or SaaS product fast. 4) Backend engineers who know NestJS but want a complete full-stack solution without learning a new frontend framework.
Cloudrix's answer:
SaaS Starter is the only production-ready NestJS + Angular SaaS boilerplate with Docker, AWS Terraform, BullMQ, CI/CD, audit logging, and API key management included. There are 50+ Next.js boilerplates but only 2 for NestJS + Angular ,and neither includes infrastructure or deployment. We fill that gap with 130+ source files, 55+ tests, and everything from auth to AWS in one package.
Cloudrix's answer:
Three reasons: 1) Stack โ if your team uses NestJS + Angular (the dominant enterprise stack), no competitor supports it. ShipFast, Supastarter, and MakerKit are all React/Next.js. 2) Completeness โ we include Docker Compose, Terraform for AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD, audit logging, API keys, and HMAC signing. No competitor offers infrastructure at any price. 3) Value โ $249 one-time vs competitors charging $299-$599 or monthly subscriptions. You save 2-6 weeks of setup ($4K-$16K in developer time) for a fraction of the cost.
Cloudrix's answer:
After building 4 SaaS products from scratch, I kept spending the first 2-3 months on the same things every time. authentication, Stripe billing, user management, admin panel, Docker setup, deployment pipelines. The actual product features didn't start until month 3. When I looked for a boilerplate to skip this, I found 50+ options for React and Next.js but almost nothing for NestJS + Angular โ the stack I use every day in production. So I packaged everything I'd built into a clean, tested, documented starter kit. Now other developers can start building their actual product n day one instead of month three.
Cloudrix's answer:
NestJS 11 (backend framework), Angular 21 (frontend with standalone components and signals), TypeScript 5.9 (end-to-end type safety), TypeORM with PostgreSQL (database), Redis (caching and job queues), BullMQ (background job processing), Stripe (payments and subscriptions), Resend (transactional emails), Passport.js (authentication strategies), Docker Compose (local development), Terraform (AWS infrastructure โ ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront), GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines), Tailwind CSS 4 (styling with dark mode), Nx (monorepo management), and Sharp (image processing).
Cloudrix's answer:
We launched recently so we're building our customer base. Early adopters include freelance developers on Upwork delivering client SaaS projects faster, small agencies in Europe using it as their standard project foundation, and startup founders who shipped their MVPs in under 2 weeks instead of 3 months. We also have a growing open-source community around the free Lite version on GitHub. As a new product, we're focused on earning trust through code quality, documentation, and fast support rather than dropping big names.
Based on our record, Redis seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 237 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Why a cache server? Well, to be, a cache system is the smallest piece of software one can found everywhere. There is a reason why redis, memcached or many other projects like that are used by everybody: developers need a way to store data quick. It could be for a session, for temporary data or simply to avoid annoying the main core database. A cache service is easy to create (key/value store), and can become... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
Adding caching layers using services like Redis cache,. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
Redis works well as the queue layer for this pattern. The receiver appends events to a list or stream. Workers consume from the stream, update event status on completion, and move failed events to a dead-letter queue after exhausting retries. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
Bifrost supports dual-layer semantic caching with exact match and semantic similarity. Backend options include Redis for exact caching, Weaviate for vector-based semantic matching, and Qdrant as an alternative vector store. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
In-memory caching shared across instances. There are no sticky sessions by default (though session affinity is available on a best-effort basis). Each request might hit a different instance. If you need shared state, you need an external store like Redis or Memorystore. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
MongoDB - MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance NoSQL database.
supastarter - The boilerplate for your next web app built on top of Supabase and Next.js.
ArangoDB - A distributed open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values.
Makerkit - Customer feedback, public roadmap & product changelog
Apache Cassandra - The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.
ShipFast.AI - Build your MVP in six weeks.