DNS and some other services work on both the protocols. We will take an example of DNS Service. Two protocols are somewhat different from each other. TCP is a connection-oriented protocol and it requires data to be consistent at the destination and UDP is connection-less protocol and doesn't require data to be consistent or don't need a connection to be established with host for consistency of data.
UDP packets are smaller in size. UDP packets can not be greater then 512 bytes. So any application needs data to be transferred greater than 512 bytes require TCP in place. For example, DNS uses both TCP and UDP for valid reasons described below. Note that UDP messages are not larger than 512 Bytes and are truncated when greater than this size. DNS uses TCP for Zone transfer and UDP for name queries either regular (primary) or reverse. UDP can be used to exchange small information whereas TCP must be used to exchange information larger than 512 bytes. If a client doesn't get response from DNS it must re-transmit the data using TCP after 3-5 seconds of interval.
There should be consistency in DNS Zone database. To make this, DNS always transfer Zone data using TCP because TCP is reliable and make sure zone data is consistent by transferring the full zone to other DNS servers who has requested the data.
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