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1 category · Named, not ranked

Apache Druid

4Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apache Druid was named 3 times in Data warehouses, where Snowflake led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market22 of 41

under the label threshold

Enterprise24 of 34

under the label threshold

In data warehouses · 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 Druid 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
Data warehouses	Data platform	0%	22 of 41	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Snowflake at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apache Druid 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 Druid 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“Look at specialized engines like ClickHouse or Apache Druid, but expect less hand-holding” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Data warehouses · negative 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.

“other columnar/OLAP engines like Druid, Pinot” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data warehouses · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apache Druid, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache Druid was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Redshift4 of 40Not in the top three

ClickHouse Cloud4 of 40Not in the top three

Google BigQuery4 of 40Not in the top three

Snowflake4 of 40Not in the top three

Azure Synapse Analytics2 of 40Not in the top three

Databricks2 of 40Not in the top three

Oracle Exadata2 of 40Not in the top three

Teradata Vantage2 of 40Not in the top three

Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB1 of 40Not in the top three

Amazon Athena1 of 40Not 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 Druid. 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 3 of the 4 answers that named Apache Druid and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

starburst.io3

classicinformatics.com2

clickhouse.com2

dev.to2

flexera.com2

reddit.com2

aegissofttech.com1

altexsoft.com1

assets.teradata.com1

audiencescience.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Apache Druid came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

classicinformatics.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouse2

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/choosing-cloud-data-warehouse2

starburst.io/blog/should-you-replace-your-cloud-data-warehouse2

starburst.io/blog/vendor-lock-in2

aegissofttech.com/insights/downsides-of-cloud-data-warehouses1

altexsoft.com/blog/snowflake-data-warehouse-pros-cons1

assets.teradata.com/resourceCenter/downloads/Brochures/Has%20Your%20Oracle%20Data%20Wareho1

assets.teradata.com/resourceCenter/downloads/WhitePapers/EB6452_3.pdf1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Apache Druid

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

Druid 1

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