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1 category · Named, not ranked

Crunchy Bridge

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 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. Crunchy Bridge 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market27 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 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 Crunchy Bridge 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%	27 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 Crunchy Bridge 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 Crunchy Bridge across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“services like Crunchy Bridge (PostgreSQL-focused)... can act as your outsourced DBA team” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · direct prompt · alternative

“Enterprise PostgreSQL | ... Crunchy Data” Kimi K2 · Managed databases · negative 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 Crunchy Bridge, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Crunchy Bridge was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Cloud SQL5 of 50Not in the top three

Amazon RDS4 of 52Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database3 of 50Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora2 of 51Not in the top three

Aiven2 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Database for PostgreSQL2 of 50Not in the top three

AWS RDS/Aurora1 of 50Not in the top three

AlloyDB for PostgreSQL1 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Database1 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL1 of 50Not 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 Crunchy Bridge. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named Crunchy Bridge and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.com3

instaclustr.com3

northflank.com2

reddit.com2

tech-insider.org2

algoroq.io1

azimuddin.bd1

checkthat.ai1

clickhouse.com1

cloudexpat.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Crunchy Bridge came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aws.amazon.com/rds3

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-20262

algoroq.io/compare-tech/rds-vs-cloud-sql-vs-azure-sql1

azimuddin.bd/blog/firebase-realtime-database-vs-firestore-choosing-the-right-nosql-databas1

checkthat.ai/answers/what-is-the-best-database-management-software1

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/aws-rds-alternatives1

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql1

crn.com/news/cloud/2025/the-10-biggest-cloud-outages-of-2025-aws-google-and-microsoft1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Crunchy Bridge

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

Crunchy Data 1

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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 crunchybridge.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.