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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Apache Drill

14Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, 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. Apache Drill was named 5 times in Data virtualization and 1 other category, where Denodo led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business55 of 90

under the label threshold

Mid-market74 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise79 of 80

under the label threshold

In data virtualization · 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 Apache Drill 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
Data virtualization	Data platform	0%	74 of 99	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28%
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	40 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 74%

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	0	2

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 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.

“For simple schema-free querying of semi-structured data: Apache Drill.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data virtualization · 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.

“called out as open-source platforms with no certifications, which makes them risky in regulated environments” Perplexity Sonar · Data virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“they are frameworks rather than turnkey platforms” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Data virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Denodo12 of 142Not among the top eight

Trino6 of 141Not among the top eight

Dremio6 of 140Not among the top eight

TIBCO Data Virtualization6 of 140Not among the top eight

Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud5 of 140Not among the top eight

Presto5 of 140Not among the top eight

Starburst Galaxy5 of 140Not among the top eight

IBM Cloud Pak for Data4 of 140Not among the top eight

Teiid4 of 140Not among the top eight

CData Connect Cloud3 of 143Not among the top eight

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 Apache Drill. 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 12 of the 14 answers that named Apache Drill and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com9

checkthat.ai7

us.fitgap.com7

airbyte.com6

denodo.com6

domo.com6

thectoclub.com5

worldmetrics.org5

databricks.com4

holidaylandmark.com4

No domain is on file for Apache Drill, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-data-virtualization-solutions7

airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools6

domo.com/learn/article/best-data-virtualization-platforms6

g2.com/categories/data-virtualization/small-business5

thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-virtualization-software5

worldmetrics.org/best/data-virtualization-software5

databricks.com/blog/what-is-data-virtualization4

holidaylandmark.com/blog/top-10-data-virtualization-platforms-features-pros-cons-compariso4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Apache Drill stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 210 a month (“apache drill”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 7 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 74 of 99 in data virtualization

Segment leader

28%

Denodo

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 14 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

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where Apache Drill 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 Apache Drill, 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;
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