Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 63 → 20 of 84
2 categories · Named, not rankedApache Flink
11Judge labels
1First choices
3Negative 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
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apache Flink was named 6 times in Streaming and 1 other category, where Confluent Cloud led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business20 of 88
2%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market26 of 98
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise78 of 81
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In streaming · 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 Flink 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 0% | 26 of 98 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 0% | 32 of 79 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Prefect at 21% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Apache Flink held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Streaming · 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 18 → 24 of 94
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 16 → 61 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming | 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 18 → 26 of 98 |
| Orchestration | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 79, unchanged |
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 Apache Flink 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 Apache Flink 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 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.
“Better Alternative | Temporal, Apache Flink” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Orchestration · negative prompt · alternative
“Good for advanced stream processing needs” MiniMax M2.5 · Streaming · direct prompt · alternative
“Apache Flink or Kafka Streams” Kimi K2 · Streaming · 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.
“described more as event processing tools than streaming platforms” Perplexity Sonar · Streaming · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Apache Flink, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache Flink was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Apache Flink, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apache Flink 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 Apache Flink. 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 11 of the 11 answers that named Apache Flink and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
devopsschool.com8
apidog.com4
dacast.com4
guideflow.com4
itechguides.com4
airbyte.com3
g2.com3
redpanda.com3
automq.com2
byteplus.com2
Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Apache Flink came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
apache.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Apache Flink takes 0% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.ShowHide
Search and answers
apache.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Apache Flink takes 0% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “event streaming platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “event streaming platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“apache flink”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 144 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,144,025 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 44,247 · 10,306 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 174,267
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess1 ads · 1 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days
First shown March 2025, as GridGain Systems, verified. 1 more by other advertisers linking to it.
On Google's pages: 1
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 26 of 98 in streaming
Segment leader
39%
Confluent Cloud
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 11 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 apache.org
2,858
subdomains included
Content
1,384
counted in the table below
Documentation
375
Product · Integration
16 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 1,081 | 12 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Blog | 228 | 1 | 2026-07-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 38 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 10 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 9 | undated | |||
| Case study | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-03Security scanning at foundation scale news or press
- 2026-09-02Asf plus one newsletter august 2026 news or press
- 2026-09-01The apache software foundation advances open source infrastructure and celebrates community growth in fy26 news or press
- 2026-09-01The apache software foundation announces keynote speakers for community over code glasgow 2026 news or press
- 2026-08-27The apache software foundation announces new top level projects 6 news or press
- 2026-08-18Apache geode 2 0 part iii lessons learned and the path forward news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page apache.org 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.
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- where Apache Flink 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 Flink, 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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