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Databricks Lakehouse Federation

2Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
2 / 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.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Databricks Lakehouse Federation was named 1 time in Data virtualization, where Denodo led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In data virtualization · 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 Databricks Lakehouse Federation 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Data virtualizationData platform0%33 of 990%1under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Databricks Lakehouse Federation 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 Databricks Lakehouse Federation across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“The Low-Friction Ecosystem Option: Databricks Lakehouse Federation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data virtualization · paraphrase 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 Databricks Lakehouse Federation, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Databricks Lakehouse Federation was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Denodo2 of 21Not among the top eight
Dremio Cloud1 of 21Not among the top eight
Starburst Galaxy1 of 21Not among the top eight
Cube1 of 20Not among the top eight
Hasura1 of 20Not among the top eight
Starburst1 of 20Not 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 Databricks Lakehouse Federation. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Databricks Lakehouse Federation and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

databricks.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Databricks Lakehouse Federation takes 0% 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”
–
not in the top ten
Its company's site
databricks.com shared with Databricks's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 689,756 a month
Searches its site ranks for
43,327 · 6,682 in the top three
Sites linking to it
33,328
Paid Google search
33 searches its ads show for, about 570 clicks and $34,664 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 88 text, 27 image, 5 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown September 2024, as Databricks, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 110 in the year, 10 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 33 of 99 in data virtualization
Segment leader
28%
Denodo
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 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.

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The company

Databricks is the company behind Databricks Lakehouse Federation.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
The Databricks query federation platform. It provides governed, read-only access to external data through Unity Catalog foreign catalogs, with automatic query pushdown and fine-grained access controls at the table level.
Free plan or trial
public preview waitlist databricks.com/resources/ebook/lakehouse-federation-databricks
Not stated on the pages read
Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Databricks Lakehouse Federation's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: docs.databricks.com/aws/en/query-federation, databricks.com/resources/ebook/lakehouse-federation-databricks, kb.databricks.com/en_US/dbsql/redshift-queries-using-lakehouse-federation-taking-longer-than-expected, kb.databricks.com/en_US/unity-catalog/error-creating-tables-on-foreign-catalogs-in-databricks-lakehouse-federation, kb.databricks.com/en_US/data-sources/using-like-statement-causing-slower-performance-in-lakehouse-federation-query. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Databricks Lakehouse Federation 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 Databricks Lakehouse Federation, 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.
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