Every category where a model named DigitalOcean Managed Databases 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	8%	4 of 73	11%	19	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DigitalOcean Managed Databases 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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct5 labels1

Paraphrase7 labels2

Comparative7 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels9

Scale-constrained8 labels1

Negative8 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 17 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.

“DigitalOcean Managed Databases stands out as one of the best options for a fully managed relational database service” Grok 4.1 Fast · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“the best value is typically DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr Managed Databases (~$15/mo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“Need the cheapest simple setup: often DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL is attractive” GPT-5.4 mini · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

“First Choice: DigitalOcean Managed Databases at $15/month” MiniMax M2.5 · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“usually better fits for smaller teams or product-led startups than a typical B2B ops environment” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Limited HA beyond basic multi\u2011AZ” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Managed databases · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Managed Databases, over the 53 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DigitalOcean Managed Databases was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon RDS43 of 539Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL40 of 534Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database32 of 530Not in the top three

Supabase29 of 536Not in the top three

Neon29 of 535Not in the top three

PlanetScale23 of 531Not in the top three

Linode Managed Databases19 of 530Not in the top three

Amazon Aurora14 of 532Not in the top three

Vultr11 of 530Not in the top three

Render Postgres10 of 530Not 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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases. 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 36 of the 53 answers that named DigitalOcean Managed Databases and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

toolradar.com23

digitalocean.comYour site21

cloudexpat.com18

cloudpricecheck.com18

northflank.com18

g2.com17

aws.amazon.com16

tech-insider.org16

auxiliar.ai11

estuary.dev10

147 of the 168 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Managed Databases came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql18

cloudpricecheck.com/guides/choosing-cloud-database18

toolradar.com/best/managed-databases/for/small-businesses17

tech-insider.org/aws-rds-vs-azure-database-vs-google-cloud-sql-202615

digitalocean.com/pricing/managed-databases13

northflank.com/blog/best-database-providers13

aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing12

g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas/small-business12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as DigitalOcean Managed Databases

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

DigitalOcean 7DigitalOcean DB 1DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL 1

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