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Getting Started with a Hazelcast Client

Hazelcast has clients in Java, .NET, Python, C++, Go, and Node.js. You can use these clients to communicate with cluster members.

For an overview of available clients, see the Client Overview. For documentation and code samples for each client, see the following:

To learn how to get started quickly with the Hazelcast clients, follow our simple tutorials. These are practical, step-by-step guides to help you get started with using Hazelcast clients in various programming languages. The tutorials are ideal for developers new to Hazelcast, to learn how to integrate Hazelcast’s distributed computing capabilities into their applications. These tutorials typically cover the following aspects:

  1. Setting up a Hazelcast client.

  2. Connecting to a Hazelcast cluster (usually a cloud instance).

  3. Performing basic operations like putting data into a distributed map.

See the following:

Alternatively, you can use Memcache to communicate directly with a Hazelcast cluster, or use the REST API for simple operations.

Additional tools are available to help operate and manage Hazelcast Platform clusters: