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Comparison

etcd vs Hazelcast

No clear leader: Hazelcast (60.7) and etcd (58.5) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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etcd59
Hazelcast61
Score
vioscaleAI score
etcd59 / 100low · 43%
Hazelcast61 / 100medium · 56%
Pricing
Free tier
etcd✗
Hazelcast–
Model
Price level
etcdfree
Hazelcastunknown
Transparent
etcd✓
Hazelcast✗
Integrations
Count
etcd80
Hazelcast6
Security
Gdpr
etcd–
Hazelcast✓
Scorecard
etcd6.9
Hazelcast4.2
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
etcd–
Hazelcast✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
etcd39,452
Hazelcast10,433
Github stars
etcd52,359
Hazelcast6,620
Package downloads weekly
etcd–
Hazelcast3,112
Activity
Commits last 30d
etcd70
Hazelcast80
Release
Cadence days
etcd–
Hazelcast15
History
etcd20 items
Hazelcast20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
etcdGo
HazelcastJava
Content
Faq
etcd6 items
Hazelcast5 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for key-value stores. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Storage
Storage tier
etcdPersistent
HazelcastIn-memory
Persistence
etcdAppend-only log
HazelcastFully durable
Data structures
etcdRich types
HazelcastKV-only
Protocol
Wire protocol
etcdgRPC
HazelcastCustom
Distribution
Clustering
etcdConsensus (Raft)
HazelcastReplicated
Consistency
etcdStrong
HazelcastStrong
Ops
Eviction / TTL policies
etcd✓
Hazelcast✓
Multi-threaded
etcd-
Hazelcast-
Pub/Sub / streams
etcd✓
Hazelcast✓
Transactions / atomic ops
etcd-
Hazelcast-
Deployment
Deployment
etcdSelf-hosted
HazelcastSelf-hosted
Licensing
Licence class
etcdPermissive OSS
Hazelcast-
Compatibility
Redis API compatibility
etcdNone
Hazelcast-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

etcd

A distributed key-value store designed to reliably store and manage critical shared state across multiple machines. It provides strong consistency guarantees via consensus, automatic TLS encryption, and gRPC APIs.

Independently observed

Hazelcast

A distributed, in-memory computing platform that combines caching, stream processing, and data integration to enable real-time applications with low-latency data access and instant decision-making.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

etcd

Open source
as of verify ↗

Hazelcast

Quote-based
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
macOS
etcd✓
Hazelcast✗
Windows
etcd✓
Hazelcast✗
Linux
etcd✓
Hazelcast✓
CLI
etcd✓
Hazelcast✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
etcd✗
Hazelcast✓
Self-hosted
etcd✓
Hazelcast✓
Hybrid
etcd✗
Hazelcast✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

etcd

33 total
  • Kubernetes
  • Vitess
  • fleet
  • Docker
  • Puppet
  • confd
  • AWS ECS
  • SkyDNS
  • discodns
  • Hiera
  • Chef
  • BOSH
  • etcdctl
  • etcd-backup
  • etcd-dump
  • etcd-fs
  • etcd-browser
  • etcd-console
  • etcd-viewer
  • etcdtool
  • etcd-rest
  • etcdsh
  • etcdloadtest
  • etcd-workbench
  • +9 more
Independently observed

Hazelcast

10 total
  • Spring Integration
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Hadoop
  • S3
  • RDBMS
  • JMS
  • Oracle Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • JDBC
Independently observed
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etcd or Hazelcast: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.