G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon ElastiCache vs. Hazelcast Platform

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon ElastiCache

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Hazelcast Platform

by Hazelcast

Overall rating4.54.3
Review count8813
Ease of use9.18.7
Ease of setup8.98.3
Quality of support8.88.9
Meets requirements9.38.9
NPS70.23809541.666667
Small Business34.1%53.8%
Mid-Market33.0%23.1%
Enterprise33.0%23.1%
Total page views23483
Total LLM citations700138

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store and cache in the cloud. Often working in conjunction with other AWS database and storage services, ElastiCache ensures modern applications meet real-time requirements for high data throughput and sub-milli second response times, while serving millions of simultaneous requests. Amazon ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory engines: o Redis - a fast, open source, in-memory data store and cache.

Pros

  • Speed
  • Cost Efficiency
  • Low Latency
  • Customer Support
  • Performance Efficiency
  • Performance

Hazelcast Platform

Hazelcast Platform is the Live Data Platform that delivers data at the speed of relevance, providing the in‑memory foundation for applications that act on data the instant it's created—ensuring businesses never miss a moment of opportunity. By converging distributed caching, compute, stream processing, and real‑time AI into one low‑latency runtime, Hazelcast delivers sub‑millisecond performance, linear scalability, and enterprise resilience. Global 2000 firms trust Hazelcast to simplify architectures, reduce costs, and power mission‑critical, time‑sensitive applications.

Pros

  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Performance Efficiency
  • Performance
  • Simple
  • Fast Processing