Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 8 → 5 of 59
1 category · RankedCouchbase
115Judge labels
7First choices
13Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in NoSQL for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 43 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Couchbase →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 60
2%31 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 73
4%43 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 54
7%41 labels
accepted challenger
In nosql · 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 Couchbase 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoSQL databases | Data platform | 4% | 3 of 73 | 9% | 43 | accepted challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Couchbase held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · NoSQL · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 3 of 69, unchanged
Enterprise▲+6Since September 2026: 2% → 9%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 5 → 3 of 53
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoSQL | 7% | 4% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 of 73, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Couchbase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Couchbase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct18 labelsNone
Paraphrase18 labels2
Comparative28 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labels4
Scale-constrained25 labels1
Negative17 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative115 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 9 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.
“1. Couchbase - a key-value database that stores data as documents, ideal for simple data storage and retrieval needs.” Llama 4 Maverick · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“MongoDB and Couchbase are the best choices due to their ease of use, strong community support, and free tiers” Mistral Small · NoSQL · budget prompt · first choice
“Prefer managed services to keep ops headcount low: MongoDB Atlas, Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase Capella, managed Cassandra.” Muse Glimmer 30B · NoSQL · scale prompt · alternative
“Couchbase Capella is a strong alternative if performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) are paramount” Kimi K2 · NoSQL · 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.
“otherwise it is usually more specialized than MongoDB for a general mid-market B2B stack” GPT-5.4 mini · NoSQL · direct prompt · soft negative
“Cons: Heavier operational complexity compared to fully managed alternatives” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“More enterprise-focused, $1,800+/mo — likely overkill for mid-market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · direct prompt · soft negative
“may be more complex and costly than traditional SQL databases” Mistral Small · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Couchbase, over the 113 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Couchbase was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Couchbase, over the 113 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Couchbase was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Couchbase. 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 94 of the 113 answers that named Couchbase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
couchbase.comYour site42
thectoclub.com35
guideflow.com34
mongodb.com34
aerospike.com27
infoworld.com27
daily.dev25
pingcap.com24
scylladb.com24
us.fitgap.com24
254 of the 296 domain citations in answers naming Couchbase came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
couchbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Couchbase takes 4% of first choices and MongoDB takes 74%.ShowHide
Search and answers
couchbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Couchbase takes 4% of first choices and MongoDB takes 74%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “nosql database”
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not in the top ten
Position for “nosql databases”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“couchbase”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 221 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 62,564 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 8,955 · 632 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 7,704
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 27 clicks and $34 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 3 of 73 in nosql
Segment leader
74%
MongoDB
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 113 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 94 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on couchbase.com
10,000
subdomains included
Content
396
counted in the table below
Documentation
9,593
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 270 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 101 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 25 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page couchbase.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Couchbase
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Couchbase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Couchbase Capella 3Couchbase Enterprise 2Couchbase / Capella 1
Follow Couchbase
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Couchbase is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Couchbase is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Operational Data Platform for AI.
- For
- the world’s biggest and most trusted brands; production AI agents, copilots, and assistants
- Price stated
- Pricing couchbase.com
- Free plan or trial
- Try Free; Start for free couchbase.com
- Customers named
- LinkedInMarriott InternationalFICOViber
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Couchbase's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: couchbase.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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 Couchbase'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 Couchbase, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Couchbase by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Couchbase 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 Couchbase, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Couchbase is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Couchbase is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCouchbase is among the products AI models recommend first in NoSQL databases this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.