Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 17% → 13%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 2 → 4 of 70
DigitalOcean · 1 category · RankedDigitalOcean Managed Databases
58Judge labels
15First choices
2Negative 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
15% in Managed databases for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 82 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of DigitalOcean Managed Databases →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business4 of 74
15%38 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 82
9%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise67 of 92
0%1 label
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 9% | 5 of 82 | 0% | 19 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 7% → 8%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, DigitalOcean Managed Databases held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Managed databases · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 7% → 8%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 72
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 72 → 59 of 81
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed databases | 7% | 8% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 7% → 8%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 82 |
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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases 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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 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
Direct8 labels2
Paraphrase9 labels2
Comparative9 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels11
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative6 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative58 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 18 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 best managed relational database service is usually DigitalOcean Managed Databases because it offers transparent starting prices” Perplexity Sonar · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want the absolute lowest ongoing managed PostgreSQL price with no vendor lock-in, DigitalOcean at ~$15/mo is the current sweet spot” Muse Glimmer 30B · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“The Winner: For most small businesses balancing ease-of-use with cost, DigitalOcean is usually the safest bet” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Best overall value: DigitalOcean Managed Databases at $15/month - predictable pricing, all-inclusive features” 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Managed Databases, over the 58 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Managed Databases, over the 58 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.
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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases. 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 50 of the 58 answers that named DigitalOcean Managed Databases and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.comYour site33
g2.com31
it-ai-index.com28
aws.amazon.com22
northflank.com20
cloud.google.com16
sourceforge.net15
tech-insider.org15
cloudinsight.cc12
learn.microsoft.com11
170 of the 203 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Managed Databases came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where DigitalOcean Managed Databases stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where DigitalOcean Managed Databases stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 110 a month (“digitalocean managed databases”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on DigitalOcean's site (digitalocean.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 5 of 82 in managed databases
Segment leader
45%
Amazon RDS
- First choices
- 15 across its categories
- Named in
- 58 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 50 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.
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 2DigitalOcean Managed DBs 2
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The company
DigitalOcean is the company behind DigitalOcean Managed Databases.ShowHide
The company
DigitalOcean is the company behind DigitalOcean Managed Databases.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- instances of DigitalOcean Managed Databases that you can use in App Platform
- For
- production use
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What DigitalOcean Managed Databases's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents, docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/manage-databases, docs.digitalocean.com/products/snapshooter/how-to/back-up-managed-databases, docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/databases/db, docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/kafka/how-to/manage-cluster. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases'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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DigitalOcean Managed Databases by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where DigitalOcean Managed Databases 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 DigitalOcean Managed Databases, 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.