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Index › Vendors › Azure Database for PostgreSQL · September 2026 Edition

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Azure Database for PostgreSQL

14Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 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

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure Database for PostgreSQL was named 8 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business14 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market20 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise27 of 78

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 Azure Database for PostgreSQL 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
Managed relational databases	Data platform	0%	20 of 73	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure Database for PostgreSQL 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 Azure Database for PostgreSQL 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	1	1	1	3
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	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 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.

“Enterprise PostgreSQL | AWS Aurora, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Crunchy Data” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative

“Azure Database for PostgreSQL if you're in the Microsoft ecosystem” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · direct prompt · alternative

“if you're on Microsoft, go with Azure Database for PostgreSQL” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Azure Database for PostgreSQL if you're on Microsoft/Azure” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · paraphrase 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.

“Azure Database for PostgreSQL: solid service, but pay close attention to version retirement and extended-support dates.” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Cloud SQL13 of 142Not in the top three

Amazon RDS12 of 145Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database7 of 140Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora6 of 142Not in the top three

Neon5 of 140Not in the top three

Supabase5 of 140Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases4 of 143Not in the top three

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL4 of 140Not in the top three

CockroachDB2 of 140Not in the top three

Crunchy Bridge2 of 140Not 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 Azure Database for PostgreSQL. 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 11 of the 14 answers that named Azure Database for PostgreSQL and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloud.google.com6

cloudexpat.com6

tech-insider.org6

worldmetrics.org6

aws.amazon.com5

devtoolreviews.com4

digitalocean.com4

docs.aws.amazon.com4

isquiz.com4

learn.microsoft.com4

Forty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Azure Database for PostgreSQL came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql6

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-20266

cloud.google.com/sql4

devtoolreviews.com/reviews/aws-rds-vs-google-cloud-sql-vs-azure-database-20264

isquiz.com/post/cloud-database-services-compared4

algoroq.io/compare-tech/rds-vs-cloud-sql-vs-azure-sql3

digitalocean.com/pricing/managed-databases3

infra.furybee.org/articles/managed-databases-compared3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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