DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare Firebolt and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics with ClickHouse, Oracle and Apache Doris.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20202016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno 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 dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
FireboltMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Recent citations in the news

Firebolt Introduces Industry-First Low Latency Cloud Data Warehouse
17 September 2024, Business Wire

Data warehouse unicorn Firebolt aims to make magic in Kirkland
10 September 2024, The Business Journals

Firebolt Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis
17 September 2024, insideHPC

10 Best Data Pipeline Tools of 2024 to Boost Your Productivity
20 February 2024, Datamation

Cloud data unicorn Firebolt fires dozens of employees
7 September 2022, CTech

provided by Google News

Azure Synapse Analytics: Transforming Data Management
7 November 2024, Simplilearn

Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024
26 March 2024, eWeek

Azure Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers
8 January 2025, Simplilearn

Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications
4 April 2024, azure.microsoft.com

Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database
3 July 2024, Microsoft

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Present your product here