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Azure · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance

3Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance was named 1 time 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market37 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise22 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 SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance 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%	37 of 73	0%	1	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 SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance 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 SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance 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	1	1
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	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

“Choose Azure SQL if your stack is SQL Server and Microsoft-heavy.” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · comparative 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 SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Cloud SQL3 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon RDS2 of 31Not in the top three

Oracle Autonomous Database2 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora1 of 31Not in the top three

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL1 of 30Not in the top three

Amazon RDS/Aurora1 of 30Not in the top three

Azure Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL1 of 30Not in the top three

CockroachDB1 of 30Not in the top three

Google Cloud Spanner1 of 30Not in the top three

IBM Db2 on Cloud1 of 30Not 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 SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance. 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 2 of the 3 answers that named Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloud.google.com2

aws.amazon.com1

dbvis.com1

docs.aws.amazon.com1

docs.oracle.com1

fortifieddata.com1

g2.com1

gitnux.org1

learn.microsoft.com1

northflank.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloud.google.com/sql2

aws.amazon.com/rds1

dbvis.com/thetable/best-database-as-a-service-dbaas-solutions-of-20251

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html1

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/gettingstartedguide/what-is-rds.html1

docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/autonomous-database/index.html1

fortifieddata.com/top-database-companies1

g2.com/categories/relational-databases/enterprise1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure SQL Database/Azure SQL Managed Instance; a claim can dispute any of them.

Azure SQL Database / Azure SQL Managed Instance (Microsoft Azure) 1

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