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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kuzu vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.71
Rank#51  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
Score14.19
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgkuzudb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.kuzudb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperMicrosoft
Initial release201820222016
Current release1.0.0, June 20240.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessserver-lesshosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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