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

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	6.32
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Microsoft

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2016

2011

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
Java
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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