# Hazelcast Platform Reviews **Vendor:** Hazelcast **Category:** [Big Data Processing And Distribution Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-processing-and-distribution) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Hazelcast Platform Hazelcast Platform is the Live Data Platform that delivers data at the speed of relevance, providing the in‑memory foundation for applications that act on data the instant it's created—ensuring businesses never miss a moment of opportunity. By converging distributed caching, compute, stream processing, and real‑time AI into one low‑latency runtime, Hazelcast delivers sub‑millisecond performance, linear scalability, and enterprise resilience. Global 2000 firms trust Hazelcast to simplify architectures, reduce costs, and power mission‑critical, time‑sensitive applications. ## Hazelcast Platform Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Hazelcast Platform, finding it fast and simple for distributed systems. (1 reviews) - Users value the **fast processing** of Hazelcast Platform, which effectively resolves distribution system issues effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility** of the Hazelcast Platform, enabling efficient solutions in distributed systems without memory issues. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fast performance** of Hazelcast Platform, which effectively resolves distributed system challenges. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **performance efficiency** of the Hazelcast Platform, which resolves distributed system issues swiftly and effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Simple (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users mention a **steep learning curve** with Hazelcast Platform, requiring extra time to find and coordinate features. (1 reviews) - Users find the **navigation difficult** , taking extra time to locate features within the Hazelcast Platform. (1 reviews) - Users find Hazelcast Platform **not user-friendly** , requiring extra time to navigate and locate features effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor UI** makes navigation difficult, leading to frustration when locating features and tools. (1 reviews) - Users find the **time-consuming nature** of coordinating with Hazelcast Platform to be a drawback in usability. (1 reviews) ## Hazelcast Platform Reviews ### 1. Memory saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** I love the small memory of the library I embedded (since I have many issues with the memory of my pc). It is also very fast and not complex at all and it saved my all my problems in the distributed systems for sure! **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Nothing to share about this...I would say as a con that it takes a bit more time in order ro coordinate yourself where and what is located **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solved my problems with my relational databases where I was struggling with the whole backend team in managing correctly our db ### 2. Hazelcast is the one of the best tools for every day`s life **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan Z. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Hazelcast first of all is a really great distributed data grid. You can use distributed collections out of the box like Map, Set, Queue for microservices replicas to share data or for caching purposes. Also, it is possible to take distributed locks to prevent doing the same work simultaneously. The Streaming framework Hazelcast Jet has many needful features and is very fast. Can be run separately from services or as a library. Supports automatic rebalancing and replication. Multiple network options to make a cluster such as multicasting or kubernetes support. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** It`s a little bit tricky to set up cluster in Kubernetes but it`s a matter of reading the documentation carefully. You should write serializers for objects yourself but it`s your payment for the size of the memory footprint of your cache. Poor search options in in-memory data structures. **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** Great tool for distributed caches and for the stream processing **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed cache, distributed locking for microservices architecture. Stream processing of the big data. ### 3. Simple and Powerful Stream Processing Engine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mateusz K. | Senior Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Performance and how it is easy to start implementation. In-memory processing is great adventage, because of high availability. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Documentation is not as good as for Hazelcast IMDG and sometimes I do not know where I can find some information I am looking for. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed Stream processing platform which allow to connect to Kafka and generate some output based on Python scripts provided by business analitycs. Jet allowed us to get messages from Kafka, translate them, enrich with data from software based on another Hazelcast IMDG, execute Python scripts and generate expected output. ### 4. Hazlecast IMDG helped us to reduce service transaction response times by an order of magnitude. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tharanga H. | Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Hazlecast is great because it's distributed data-structures are extensions of commonly used java interfaces. Due to this our team was able to quickly grasp the framework, and implement our solution. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** At the time I was using this (2017), there weren't much documentation explaining the internal behavior, so we had to dig in to the source code. **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** May be the stateful architectures that Hazelcast presents are not for every situation, as they are hard to manage (talking about DevOps). Use it when there is a dying need for performance. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hazlecast IMDG helped us to reduce service transaction response times by an order of magnitude, by allowing us to process at the data nodes, in memory. This is a huge cut down in network and disk I/O, when comparing to traditional architectures, where all the data is loaded to the service nodes. It also helped us increasing the number of CPUs available for a single transaction, thanks to it's distributed executor service. More details - https://medium.com/@tharanga.hewa/distributed-computing-for-not-so-big-data-a7a14600d4b8 ### 5. Efficient in-memory database, best when used next to a relation database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** I like Hazelcast being configurable to auto back-up features of it. When one of your hazelcast instance is down, remaining instances in the cluster recovers those data from backup and continue working where it left. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** I can't think of anything I don't like about Hazelcast IMDG, maybe the pricing would be the worst side of it. **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** I used Hazelcast embedded to the services. However, stand-alone usage of Hazelcast might provide a better/more sustainable cluster. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hazelcast is solving our caching problem and fastens the data access time. It also makes it possible to spend less time on managing instances of cache. The instances can discover each other and communicate as default. ### 6. Clustered in memory cache for your highly scalable application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** We enjoyed using hazel cast cluster for one of the highly scalable SaaS applications serving 2 million transactions every minute Hazel cast was very stable and we loved it **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** We used Hazel cast back in 2013-2015 and those days I felt there were multiple opportunities to improve further. Some of those improvements which we had suggested didn't get implemented even after a a couple of years. **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** It used to be one of the well-known java based alternative for Memcached. Give it a try:) **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it for reducing DB hits for our highly scalable SaaS application ### 7. And Excellent Grid-Cache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roland L. | VP of Products, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Performance, ease-of-use, and JVM friendliness **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Hazelcast implementation requires application changes. However, solutions like the Heimdall Proxy can manage Hazelcast clusters by providing the caching and invalidation logic for Hazelcast. **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** The Heimdall Database Proxy provides the caching and invalidation for Hazelcast. You can create a SQL cache subsystem in minutes without any code changes. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved response times and database scale via query caching ### 8. Hazelcast review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj S. | Lead Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** We had multiple services running independently. It was helping us to make financial data instantly available to all our services. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** It's costly and you cannt add huge data in this as it stores data in in-memory. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved multiple back and forth calls between services as if you add data in any service and it will be instantly available to other services. ### 9. High performance cache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** The ability to have a distributed cache with very high performance numbers **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Setup on a distributed system can somethings be tricky, but with tools like Kubernetes it's much more simpler than used to be. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to serve multiple customers. Before, the only way to scale was adding a bigger machine, now, we can just add a new node. ### 10. cache technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh R. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Useful to store and retrieve as the service call is frequently get data than database **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Key and value pair in concurrent mapping can be modified model or pojo class's with security upgrade **Recommendations to others considering Hazelcast Platform:** Good to go with this in today world and data **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** API service call to database is reduced to frequent hits makes deadlock on database. To avoid that ,hazelcast to store as cache needs to be implemented ### 11. Wonderful experience, especially with "hazelcast/management-center" docker Image **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad A. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** "hazelcast/management-center" docker Image, and now Hazelcast Jet is amazing **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Nothing really, but yes there are many alternatives available in the market. For me the good news is Hazlecast is picking up the pace for bringing up new features. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distribute Cache Management. ### 12. I have used Hazelcast in production systems with success **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Malaka E. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** Simple api. Easy to understand. Minimum dependence **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** I wish Hazelcast has better integration with aws like redis **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using it as a cache implementation to improve flight search service ### 13. Distributed processing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Hazelcast Platform?** The ease of performing tasks in a distributed manner, although programming knowledge is required. **What do you dislike about Hazelcast Platform?** Perhaps at first it may be a bit complicated, but once you get the hang of it, it's extremely useful. **What problems is Hazelcast Platform solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personally, I used it in the area of transactions and it was very simple and useful for me. ## Hazelcast Platform Discussions - [What is Redis vs Hazelcast?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-redis-vs-hazelcast) - [What is Hazelcast enterprise?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-hazelcast-enterprise) - [How does Hazelcast store data?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-hazelcast-store-data) - [What is Hazelcast used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-hazelcast-used-for) - [View Hazelcast Platform pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hazelcast-platform/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+17%3A26%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2066261f-9fe0-4960-9333-35271d7d2941&secure%5Btoken%5D=844c38cda7d05c8320ccde78afdee2937a8b9f25f434656ed096e81b884dd5ec&format=llm_user) ## Hazelcast Platform Features **Data** - Data Processing - Data Sources - Integration - Real-Time Processing **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers **Data Indexing** - Semantic Search - Indexing Data **Query latency** - Lower query latency - Continuous queries **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Database** - Real-Time Data Collection - Data Distribution - Data Lake **Analytics** - Reporting & Analytics **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Data latency** - Lower data latency - Data pipeline performance **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Integrations** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Performance** - Query Optimization **Filters** - Accurate Search - Single Stage Filtering - Vector Database **Connectors** - Faster ingestion - Built-in connectors **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Platform** - Machine Scaling - Data Preparation - Spark Integration **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Scale** - Linearly scalable database - Storage management **Processing** - Cloud Processing - Workload Processing **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors **Architecture** - Data security - Lockless architecture **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Hazelcast Platform Alternatives - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (499 reviews) - [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (705 reviews) - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,147 reviews)