The Hazelcast company is funded by venture capital and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

[4][5][6] In a Hazelcast grid, data is evenly distributed among the nodes of a computer cluster, allowing for horizontal scaling of processing and available storage.

The Hazelcast Cloud Discovery Service Provider Interface (SPI) enables cloud-based or on-premises nodes to auto-discover each other.

The Hazelcast and open-source community members have created client APIs for programming languages that include Java, .NET, C++, Python, Node.js and Go.

[7] Typical use-cases for Hazelcast include: Vert.x utilizes it for shared storage.