About Hazelcast
Hazelcast is a distributed computation and storage platform for consistently low-latency querying, aggregation and stateful computation against event streams and traditional data sources. It allows you to quickly build resource-efficient, real-time applications. You can deploy it at any scale from small edge devices to a large cluster of cloud instances.
A cluster of Hazelcast nodes share both the data storage and computational load which can dynamically scale up and down. When you add new nodes to the cluster, the data is automatically rebalanced across the cluster, and currently running computational tasks (known as jobs) snapshot their state and scale with processing guarantees.
When to use Hazelcast
Hazelcast provides a platform that can handle multiple types of workloads for building real-time applications.
- Stateful data processing over streaming data or data at rest
- Querying streaming and batch data sources directly using SQL
- Ingesting data through a library of connectors and serving it using low-latency SQL queries
- Pushing updates to applications on events
- Low-latency queue-based or pub-sub messaging
- Fast access to contextual and transactional data via caching patterns such as read/write-through and write-behind
- Distributed coordination for microservices
- Replicating data from one region to another or between data centers in the same region
Key Features
- Stateful and fault-tolerant data processing and querying over data streams and data at rest using SQL or dataflow API
- A comprehensive library of connectors such as Kafka, Hadoop, S3, RDBMS, JMS and many more
- Distributed messaging using pub-sub and queues
- Distributed, partitioned, queryable key-value store with event listeners, which can also be used to store contextual data for enriching event streams with low latency
- A production-ready Raft-implementation which allows lineralizable (CP) concurrency primitives such as distributed locks.
- Tight integration for deploying machine learning models with Python to a data processing pipeline
- Cloud-native, run everywhere architecture
- Zero-downtime operations with rolling upgrades
- At-least-once and exactly-once processing guarantees for stream processing pipelines
- Data replication between data centers and geographic regions using WAN
- Microsecond performance for key-value point lookups and pub-sub
- Unique data processing architecture results in 99.99% latency of under 10ms for streaming queries with millions of events per second.
- Client libraries in Java, Python, Node.js, .NET, C++ and Go
