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Azure SQL Managed Instance

15Judge labels

2First choices

5Negative 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Azure SQL Managed Instance was named 4 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 business62 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market38 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise5 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 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%	38 of 73	25%	4	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 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 Managed Instance 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	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	2
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labels2

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“For complex SQL Server migrations requiring full feature support” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · comparative prompt · alternative

“SQL Server‑centric migrations: Azure SQL Managed Instance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.

“Avoid (or use with extreme caution): Azure SQL Managed Instance if your application relies heavily on Service Broker, Linked Servers, or custom DNS aliases.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure SQL Managed Instance, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure SQL Managed Instance was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Aurora12 of 153Not in the top three

Amazon RDS11 of 156Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL11 of 151Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database10 of 151Not in the top three

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL7 of 150Not in the top three

Google Cloud Spanner5 of 150Not in the top three

Oracle Autonomous Database4 of 150Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Managed Databases2 of 152Not in the top three

CockroachDB2 of 150Not in the top three

Neon2 of 150Not 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 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 14 of the 15 answers that named Azure SQL Managed Instance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.microsoft.com10

aws.amazon.com7

cloudexpat.com7

amirulislamalmamun.com4

cloud.google.com4

docs.aws.amazon.com4

red-gate.com4

tech-insider.org4

algoroq.io3

azure.microsoft.com3

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Azure SQL Managed Instance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql7

amirulislamalmamun.com/practice/system-design/concepts/063-managed-sql-rds-cloudsql-azures4

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/features-comparison4

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-20264

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

aws.amazon.com/rds3

gitnux.org/service/database-managed3

infoq.com/articles/managed-relational-databases-costs3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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