Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 12 → 14 of 70
1 category · Named, not rankedAiven
22Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
9 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Aiven was named 9 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business16 of 74
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market12 of 82
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise17 of 92
0%6 labels
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 12 of 82 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Aiven held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 23 → 11 of 72
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 33 → 14 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 23 → 12 of 82 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Aiven across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Aiven across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“newer, dedicated Postgres hosts (like Crunchy Bridge or Aiven) deliver significantly better I/O and query throughput” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative
“consider cloud-neutral managed services like Aiven, Supabase, Neon, or Crunchy Data” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · scale prompt · alternative
“Aiven (multi-cloud Postgres/MySQL) for simpler, cheaper options vs. Big 3” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · direct prompt · alternative
“If multi-cloud or open-source focus, explore Aiven/Instaclustr.” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · scale 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.
“Smaller Providers (e.g., Linode/Aiven/DO Managed DBs)... Weaker SLAs/support vs. hyperscalers.” Grok 4.20 · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aiven, over the 22 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aiven, over the 22 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 18 of the 22 answers that named Aiven and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.com10
it-ai-index.com10
g2.com9
northflank.com8
tech-insider.org7
cloudinsight.cc6
gitnux.org6
aws.amazon.com5
devtoolreviews.com5
reddit.com5
Seventy-one of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming Aiven came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
aiven.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aiven takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
aiven.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aiven takes 0% of first choices and Amazon RDS takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “managed relational database service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “managed relational database services”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,600 a month (“aiven”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 21 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 10,024 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,365 · 213 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,556
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 3 clicks and $59 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 12 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 22 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on aiven.io
2,567
subdomains included
Content
1,322
counted in the table below
Documentation
993
Product · Integration
3 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 575 | undated | |||
| Blog | 465 | 24 | 2026-09-25 | ETL | |
| News or press | 68 | 2 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Comparison | 52 | 0 | 2025-04-25 | ||
| Case study | 46 | 0 | 2022-07-04 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 37 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 34 | 3 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Report or ebook | 19 | 0 | 2021-05-10 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | 0 | 2024-09-16 | ETL | |
| Podcast or video | 13 | 0 | 2024-03-26 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Base44 database aiven postgresql blog
- 2026-09-23Deploy your apps and agents where your data lives with aiven runtime blog
- 2026-09-23Let builders build and agents cook blog
- 2026-09-23Know your data trust your ai aiven datahub is now ga blog
- 2026-09-23Your users already know whats relevant are you listening blog
- 2026-09-23Aiven launches runtime and datahub enabling ai agents news or press
Events in person
Last twelve months
- April 21, 2026 to April 22, 2026PGConf DE 2026Haus der Technik, Essen, Essen, DE · sponsored
- April 21, 2026Benchmarking - an unexpected journeyHaus der Technik, Essen, Essen, DE · spoke
- March 24, 2026PGDay Nordics 2026Scandic Park Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland · sponsored
- March 11, 2026 to March 13, 2026PGConf India 2026Sheraton Grand Hotel at Brigade Gateway, Bengalaru, Bengalaru, IN · sponsored
As the event pages on aiven.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page aiven.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Aiven
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Aiven is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Aiven is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Your AI-ready Open Source Data Platform
- For
- developers and engineering teams who need production-grade open source data infrastructure without the operational overhead
- Price stated
- Free tier: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch and Valkey. No credit card required, no time limit. Developer: From $5/month for PostgreSQL & MySQL as well as OpenSearch, or $35/month for Kafka. Startup: Small production workloads with backup retention and basic high-availability options. Business: Recommended for production. Multi-node clusters with high availability, 14-day backup retention, and the 99.99% uptime SLA. Premium: Enterprise-grade production. Larger cluster sizes, 30-day backup retention, optional synchronous replication, priority support add-ons. All plans include automated backups, monitoring, and no hidden fees. aiven.io
- Starting price
- From $5/month aiven.io
- Free plan or trial
- Free tier (no credit card required, no time limit) aiven.io
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPRHIPAA-compliant infrastructureSOC 2HIPAA
- Hosting
- more than 100 regions worldwideAsia, Bangalore (blr)Asia, Singapore (sgp)Canada, Toronto (tor)Europe, Frankfurt (fra)Europe, London (lon)Europe, Amsterdam (ams)Australia, Sydney (syd)
- Customers named
- PricelineDecathlonWoltSophosFiverrDojoKroo BankLa Redoute
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Aiven's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aiven.io, aiven.io/pricing/mysql, aiven.io/developer/security, aiven.io/platform, aiven.io/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aiven by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Aiven is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Aiven, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.