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Index › Vendors › Aiven · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Aiven

14Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Aiven was named 5 times in Managed databases and 1 other category, where Amazon RDS led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business11 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise36 of 78

under the label threshold

In managed databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Aiven for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	24 of 73	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	38 of 72	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 59%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aiven yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Aiven across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“praised for predictability, multi-cloud, lower lock-in” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative

“Aiven is the top-tier independent solution.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aiven, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aiven was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Cloud SQL11 of 141Not in the top three

Amazon RDS10 of 143Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database9 of 141Not in the top three

Supabase7 of 142Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases6 of 141Not in the top three

Neon6 of 141Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora5 of 141Not in the top three

PlanetScale5 of 140Not in the top three

Linode Managed Databases4 of 140Not in the top three

AWS RDS/Aurora3 of 141Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Aiven. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 14 answers that named Aiven and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudexpat.com6

g2.com6

digitalocean.com5

gitnux.org5

tech-insider.org5

cloudtoolstack.com4

devtoolreviews.com4

maximaconsulting.com4

toolradar.com4

worldmetrics.org4

Forty-seven of the forty-seven domain citations in answers naming Aiven came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql6

gitnux.org/service/managed-database5

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-20265

devtoolreviews.com/reviews/aws-rds-vs-google-cloud-sql-vs-azure-database-20264

maximaconsulting.com/newsroom/best-managed-database-service-providers-20264

algoroq.io/compare-tech/rds-vs-cloud-sql-vs-azure-sql3

cloudpricecheck.com/guides/choosing-cloud-database3

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/aws-rds-alternatives3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Aiven

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Aiven; a claim can dispute any of them.

Aiven (for PostgreSQL) 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Aiven's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Aiven, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at aiven.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.