Every category where a model named CData Connect Cloud 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
Data virtualization	Data platform	2%	11 of 99	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CData Connect Cloud yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CData Connect Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct8 labels5

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labels2

Negative5 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 14 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.

“CData is highly practical. It is lightweight, relatively inexpensive, and has massive connector coverage.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data virtualization · scale prompt · first choice

“If you just want to connect BI tools to SaaS applications: Go with CData Connect.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data virtualization · budget prompt · alternative

“Look at CData Connect Cloud if budget is a primary concern” Kimi K2 · Data virtualization · direct prompt · alternative

“The Best for Lean, No-Code Teams: CData Connect Cloud” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data virtualization · 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 CData Connect Cloud, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CData Connect Cloud was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Denodo19 of 211Not among the top eight

Dremio11 of 212Not among the top eight

TIBCO Data Virtualization11 of 210Not among the top eight

Starburst Galaxy10 of 211Not among the top eight

Teiid6 of 211Not among the top eight

SAP HANA6 of 210Not among the top eight

Trino5 of 210Not among the top eight

Dremio Cloud4 of 211Not among the top eight

AWS Glue4 of 210Not among the top eight

Apache Drill3 of 210Not among the top eight

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 CData Connect Cloud. 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 21 of the 21 answers that named CData Connect Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com17

domo.com12

thectoclub.com11

us.fitgap.com11

checkthat.ai10

denodo.com9

dremio.com9

cdata.comYour site8

etlclub.net7

peerspot.com7

Ninety-three of the 101 domain citations in answers naming CData Connect Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/data-virtualization/small-business13

domo.com/learn/article/best-data-virtualization-platforms12

thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-virtualization-software11

us.fitgap.com/search/data-virtualization-software/small-business10

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-data-virtualization-solutions9

etlclub.net/best-data-virtualization-platforms7

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-data-virtualization-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cdata.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CData Connect Cloud takes 2% of first choices and Denodo takes 28%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data virtualization platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 70 a month (“cdata connect cloud”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 19,412 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 11,094 · 278 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,781
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 5 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 115 text, 5 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as CData Software, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 74 in the year, 46 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 11 of 99 in data virtualization

Segment leader

28%

Denodo

First choices: 8 across its categories
Named in: 21 answers
Its own site cited: in 21 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on cdata.com

9,980

subdomains included

Content

1,238

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

46 · 413

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	819	undated	EDI, MFT
Case study	141	undated
Podcast or video	89	undated	ETL, EDI
Glossary or explainer	77	undated	EDI, MFT
Report or ebook	52	undated	EDI, MFT
Comparison	21	undated	EDI, MFT
News or press	17	undated
Webinar or virtual event	15	undated
Conference or event	7	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cdata.com 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name EDI (61); 1 name the category the models place it in. 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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as CData Connect Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CData Connect Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.

CData Connect 1

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CData Connect Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where CData Connect Cloud 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 CData Connect Cloud, 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;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.