Every category where a model named Apache CouchDB 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
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	18 of 72	25%	12	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apache CouchDB 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 Apache CouchDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Comparative3 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Fully free (Apache 2.0), HTTP/JSON API, multi-master replication for offline sync. Very lightweight.” Grok 4.1 Fast · NoSQL · budget prompt · alternative

“go with Apache Cassandra or CouchDB” Kimi K2 · NoSQL · budget prompt · alternative

“4. CouchDB (Best for Ease of Use)” MiniMax M2.5 · NoSQL · budget 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.

“Risk Level: High CouchDB is an HTTP-based document database that has faced specific security audit failures.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative

“Weaker querying than MongoDB, poor in-place updates... other document stores are usually better fits.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative

“Dated; security weaknesses (e.g., weak auth), replication lags. Less active dev.” Grok 4.1 Fast · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apache CouchDB, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache CouchDB was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

MongoDB29 of 3115Not in the top three

Redis26 of 313Not in the top three

Apache Cassandra24 of 312Not in the top three

Amazon DynamoDB20 of 311Not in the top three

Couchbase11 of 311Not in the top three

PostgreSQL10 of 313Not in the top three

Apache HBase9 of 310Not in the top three

Neo4j8 of 311Not in the top three

ScyllaDB7 of 310Not in the top three

Azure Cosmos DB6 of 310Not 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 Apache CouchDB. 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 24 of the 31 answers that named Apache CouchDB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aerospike.com12

voltactivedata.com11

instaclustr.com9

mongodb.com9

kkovacs.eu8

sourceforge.net8

geeksforgeeks.org7

guideflow.com7

journalofbigdata.springeropen.com7

1bench.dev6

Eighty-four of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming Apache CouchDB came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases11

voltactivedata.com/blog/2021/10/nosql-due-diligence-part-111

kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis8

guideflow.com/blog/nosql-database-software7

journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-015-0025-07

1bench.dev/databases/nosql6

alex-klaus.com/reasons-not-to-nosql6

pingcap.com/article/top-10-nosql-databases-to-consider-20246

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Apache CouchDB

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

CouchDB 9

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