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Hazelcast vs Tarantool: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Tarantool? Free and open source an in-memory database and application server. It is designed to give you the flexibility, scalability, and performance that you want, as well as the reliability and manageability that you need in mission-critical applications.
Hazelcast and Tarantool can be categorized as "In-Memory Databases" tools.
Some of the features offered by Hazelcast are:
- Distributed implementations of java.util.{Queue, Set, List, Map}
- Distributed implementation of java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock
- Distributed implementation of java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService
On the other hand, Tarantool provides the following key features:
- Fast
- Open source
- Easy to use
Hazelcast and Tarantool are both open source tools. It seems that Hazelcast with 3.25K GitHub stars and 1.18K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Tarantool with 2.18K GitHub stars and 213 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Hazelcast has a broader approval, being mentioned in 35 company stacks & 81 developers stacks; compared to Tarantool, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Hazelcast
- High Availibility11
- Distributed Locking6
- Distributed compute6
- Sharding5
- Load balancing4
- Map-reduce functionality3
- Simple-to-use3
- Written in java. runs on jvm3
- Publish-subscribe3
- Sql query support in cluster wide3
- Optimis locking for map2
- Performance2
- Multiple client language support2
- Rest interface2
- Admin Interface (Management Center)1
- Better Documentation1
- Easy to use1
- Super Fast1
Pros of Tarantool
- Performance3
- Super fast2
- Open source2
- Advanced key-value cache1
- In-memory cache1
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Cons of Hazelcast
- License needed for SSL4