# Hazelcast vs Timeplus Proton

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Hazelcast

| Attribute | Hazelcast | Timeplus Proton |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 60.7 (56% (medium)) | 51.1 (5% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 80 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 10,433 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,620 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 3,112 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Hazelcast is a distributed data platform that provides real-time processing and continuous intelligence capabilities. It supports clustering and integrates with various frameworks and clients. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.","source":"https://hazelcast.com","question":"What is Hazelcast?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Hazelcast supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://hazelcast.com","question":"What platforms does Hazelcast support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Hazelcast can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://hazelcast.com","question":"Can Hazelcast be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Hazelcast. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Hazelcast not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://hazelcast.com/blog/health-information-privacy/","question":"What security certifications does Hazelcast have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Hazelcast is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/hazelcast-client","question":"Is Hazelcast open source?","confidence":0.85}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source platform for building real-time data pipelines that processes events and historical data through SQL, deployable across edge, cloud, and on-premises environments with millisecond-level latency. It is indexed under Streaming Analytics.","source":"https://www.timeplus.com/pricing","question":"What is Timeplus Proton?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Timeplus Proton is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Paid editions are also offered: Enterprise Self-Hosted and Enterprise Cloud, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.timeplus.com/post/usage-based-pricing-with-timeplus-and-paigo","question":"Is Timeplus Proton free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Timeplus Proton supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.timeplus.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Timeplus Proton support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Timeplus Proton can be deployed hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.timeplus.com/pricing","question":"Can Timeplus Proton be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 15 integrations for Timeplus Proton, including Kafka, ClickHouse, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, S3, Iceberg and OpenSearch, plus 7 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.timeplus.com/pricing","question":"What does Timeplus Proton integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Timeplus Proton is an open-source streaming SQL engine that processes real-time data from various sources, enabling fast analytics, complex event processing, and feature engineering with millisecond latency in a lightweight, single-binary deployment. |
| features.capabilities | `{"clustering":"replicated","deployment":"self_hosted","autoscaling":true,"consistency":"strong","open_source":true,"persistence":"durable","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"in_memory","latency_class":"sub-second","pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","streaming_sql":true,"wire_protocol":"custom","pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"kv_only","deployment_model":"self-hosted","delivery_guarantee":"exactly-once","stateful_processing":true}` | `{"cdc_support":true,"open_source":true,"latency_class":"sub-second","pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","streaming_sql":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","stateful_processing":true,"event_time_watermarks":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 10 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Spring Integration"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true},{"name":"Hadoop","native":true},{"name":"S3","native":true},{"name":"RDBMS","native":true},{"name":"JMS","native":true},{"name":"Oracle Database","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Microsoft SQL Server","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"JDBC","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"ClickHouse"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Iceberg"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Redpanda Connect"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Elastic"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Python SDK"},{"name":"Java SDK"},{"name":"Go SDK"},{"name":"Apache Kafka","native":true,"category":"message-queue","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true,"category":"object-storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","native":true,"category":"data-warehouse","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Redpanda","native":true,"category":"message-queue","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"quote","sourceUrl":"https://hazelcast.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T21:11:26.502Z"}` | `{"plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Self-Hosted","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Cloud","contactSales":true}],"sourceUrl":"https://www.timeplus.com/post/usage-based-pricing-with-timeplus-and-paigo","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T21:36:57.820Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 15 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.7.0","date":"2026-05-13T10:46:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.6.0","date":"2025-10-15T14:47:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.5.0","date":"2024-07-26T17:03:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.8","date":"2024-07-17T14:13:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.4.0","date":"2024-04-15T17:55:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.7","date":"2024-04-03T10:23:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.2.5","date":"2024-02-26T14:47:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.2.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.6","date":"2023-11-09T14:00:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.5","date":"2023-10-24T14:59:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.2","date":"2023-08-21T15:41:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.0.5","date":"2023-06-28T13:47:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.0.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.1.7","date":"2023-06-19T14:02:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.1.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.2.4","date":"2023-06-13T12:40:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.2.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.1","date":"2023-06-09T09:24:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v4.2.8","date":"2023-05-29T09:56:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.2.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.0","date":"2023-05-19T06:32:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.1.6","date":"2023-05-10T10:55:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.1.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.0-BETA-2","date":"2023-04-12T10:58:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.0-BETA-2"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.2.3","date":"2023-03-23T13:28:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.2.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/releases/tag/v5.3.0-BETA-1","date":"2023-03-17T06:49:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v5.3.0-BETA-1"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.2 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":10,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.hazelcast%3Ahazelcast&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Streaming Analytics)

| Capability | Hazelcast | Timeplus Proton |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Processing model | - | - |
| Delivery guarantee | Exactly once | - |
| Streaming sql | ✓ | ✓ |
| Event time watermarks | - | ✓ |
| Stateful processing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cdc support | - | ✓ |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | Self hosted |
| Autoscaling | ✓ | - |
| Connector breadth | - | - |
| Latency class | Sub second | Sub second |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 | - | - |
| Pricing model | Open source self host | Open source self host |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:29:08.361Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*