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Azure Database

9Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 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. Azure Database was named 3 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 business48 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 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 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%	25 of 73	0%	3	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 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“Use Standard managed instances (RDS Standard, Azure Flexible Server) rather than proprietary variants” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed databases · negative prompt · alternative

“Other options to consider are AWS RDS and Azure Database” Llama 4 Maverick · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for Microsoft-centric companies” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure Database, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure Database was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon RDS9 of 95Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL9 of 92Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora2 of 90Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases2 of 90Not in the top three

Oracle Autonomous Database1 of 91Not in the top three

Supabase1 of 91Not in the top three

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL1 of 90Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database1 of 90Not in the top three

Crunchy Bridge1 of 90Not in the top three

Instaclustr1 of 90Not 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. 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 8 of the 9 answers that named Azure Database and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

tech-insider.org6

cloudexpat.com4

northflank.com4

zipdo.co4

aws.amazon.com3

cloud.google.com3

devtoolreviews.com3

gitnux.org3

clickhouse.com2

cloudinsight.cc2

Thirty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Azure Database came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql4

northflank.com/blog/best-database-providers4

aws.amazon.com/rds3

devtoolreviews.com/reviews/aws-rds-vs-google-cloud-sql-vs-azure-database-20263

gitnux.org/service/managed-database3

zipdo.co/service/database-managed3

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/aws-rds-alternatives2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Azure Database's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Azure Database, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at azure.cn is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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