Hazelcast vs Microsoft SQL Server: What are the differences?
Hazelcast: Clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java. With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution; Microsoft SQL Server: A relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
Hazelcast and Microsoft SQL Server are primarily classified as "In-Memory Databases" and "Databases" tools respectively.
"High Availibility" is the primary reason why developers consider Hazelcast over the competitors, whereas "Reliable and easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking Microsoft SQL Server.
Hazelcast is an open source tool with 3.15K GitHub stars and 1.15K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hazelcast's open source repository on GitHub.
Intuit, Stack Exchange, and MIT are some of the popular companies that use Microsoft SQL Server, whereas Hazelcast is used by Yammer, Seat Pagine Gialle, and Stormpath. Microsoft SQL Server has a broader approval, being mentioned in 470 company stacks & 425 developers stacks; compared to Hazelcast, which is listed in 25 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.