<s>
In	O
computing	O
,	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
IMDG	O
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
in-memory	B-General_Concept
data	B-General_Concept
grid	I-General_Concept
based	O
on	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
company	O
is	O
funded	O
by	O
venture	O
capital	O
and	O
headquartered	O
in	O
Palo	O
Alto	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
grid	O
,	O
data	O
is	O
evenly	O
distributed	O
among	O
the	O
nodes	O
of	O
a	O
computer	B-Architecture
cluster	I-Architecture
,	O
allowing	O
for	O
horizontal	O
scaling	O
of	O
processing	B-Operating_System
and	O
available	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hazelcast	B-Application
provides	O
central	O
,	O
predictable	O
scaling	O
of	O
applications	O
through	O
in-memory	B-General_Concept
access	O
to	O
frequently	O
used	O
data	O
and	O
across	O
an	O
elastically	O
scalable	O
data	B-General_Concept
grid	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hazelcast	B-Application
can	O
run	O
on-premises	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
cloud	O
(	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
,	O
OpenShift	B-General_Concept
)	O
,	O
virtually	O
(	O
VMware	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
in	O
Docker	B-Language
containers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hazelcast	B-Application
offers	O
technology	O
integrations	O
for	O
multiple	O
cloud	O
configuration	O
and	O
deployment	O
technologies	O
,	O
including	O
Apache	O
jclouds	O
,	O
Consul	O
,	O
etcd	O
,	O
Eureka	O
,	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
Zookeeper	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
Cloud	O
Discovery	O
Service	O
Provider	O
Interface	O
(	O
SPI	O
)	O
enables	O
cloud-based	O
or	O
on-premises	O
nodes	O
to	O
auto-discover	O
each	O
other	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
platform	O
can	O
manage	O
memory	O
for	O
many	O
different	O
types	O
of	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
and	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
community	O
members	O
have	O
created	O
client	O
APIs	O
for	O
programming	O
languages	O
that	O
include	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
.NET	B-Application
,	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Node.js	B-Language
and	O
Go	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Typical	O
use-cases	O
for	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
include	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Vert.x	B-Language
utilizes	O
it	O
for	O
shared	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hazelcast	B-Application
is	O
also	O
used	O
in	O
academia	O
and	O
research	O
as	O
a	O
framework	O
for	O
distributed	O
execution	O
and	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud2Sim	O
leverages	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
as	O
a	O
distributed	O
execution	O
framework	O
for	O
CloudSim	B-General_Concept
cloud	O
simulations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ElastiCon	O
distributed	O
SDN	O
controller	O
uses	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
as	O
its	O
distributed	O
data	B-General_Concept
store	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
∂u∂u	O
exploits	O
Hazelcast	B-Application
as	O
its	O
distributed	O
execution	O
framework	O
for	O
near	O
duplicate	O
detection	O
in	O
enterprise	O
data	O
solutions	O
.	O
</s>
