Hazelcast

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Hazelcast IMDG (In Memory Data Grid) is a Java-based open-source distributed in-memory key-value store and computation platform. It spreads and replicates data across a cluster of machines, therefore ensuring high availability, fault-tolerance and painless horizontal scalability. Hazelcast provides APIs for many of the most commonly used programming languages, including Java, C#, Python, Go and others. It can also be deployed on several different cloud environments, thanks to its multiple discovery plugins. Hazelcast's most common use cases include database caching, in-memory data computing and in-memory messaging.

History

Hazelcast is both the name of the product and the company that created it. The start-up was founded in 2008 by Talip Ozturk and Fuad Malikov. The first open-source implementation of Hazelcast was released at the beginning of 2009. Several updated versions have been made public since then, the latest one dating from February 4, 2020.