Small business=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 20 → 8 of 46
2 categories · Named, not rankedDuckDB
16Judge labels
2First choices
1Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. DuckDB was named 6 times in Data warehouses and 1 other category, where Snowflake led with 49%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 49
2%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market10 of 26
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In data warehouses · 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 DuckDB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data warehouses | Data platform | 0% | 10 of 26 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Snowflake at 49% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data virtualization | Data platform | 0% | 24 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28% |
Movement
Since September 2026, DuckDB held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Data warehouses · by segment
Mid-market=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 17 → 11 of 25
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data warehouses | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 17 → 10 of 26 |
| Data virtualization | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 24 of 99, 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 DuckDB 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 DuckDB 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative2 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.
“DuckDB + its federation features (free, fast, no lock-in)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data virtualization · negative prompt · first choice
“Ultra-Budget (Almost Free) ... Perfect for small teams, data exploration, and lightweight analytics.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data warehouses · budget prompt · alternative
“DuckDB + MotherDuck (Best for Startups & Small-to-Medium Data)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data warehouses · budget 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.
“Not a true cloud warehouse; concurrency limited to one process” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data warehouses · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DuckDB, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DuckDB was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DuckDB, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DuckDB 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 DuckDB. 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 14 of the 16 answers that named DuckDB and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
clickhouse.com9
fortegrp.com9
motherduck.com9
airbyte.com8
ovaledge.com7
tinybird.co6
accio.com5
atlan.com5
allbusinessjournal.com4
definite.app4
Sixty-six of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming DuckDB came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
duckdb.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DuckDB takes 0% of first choices and Snowflake takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
duckdb.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DuckDB takes 0% of first choices and Snowflake takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud data warehouse”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud data warehouses”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“duckdb”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 686 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 15,468 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,218 · 306 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,920
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 10 of 26 in data warehouses
Segment leader
49%
Snowflake
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 16 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 14 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 duckdb.org
3,791
subdomains included
Content
642
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,356
Product · Integration
10 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 617 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 23 | 7 | 2026-10-01 | ||
| Blog | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Pycon nl conference or event
- 2026-10-01Alice and eve conference or event
- 2026-09-01Duckdb boston meetup conference or event
- 2026-09-01Pydata amsterdam conference or event
- 2026-09-01Dbt without the warehouse or the bill conference or event
- 2026-09-01Nobody knows what oltp is conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page duckdb.org 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as DuckDB
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as DuckDB; a claim can dispute any of them.
DuckDB + MotherDuck 1MotherDuck / DuckDB 1
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The company
DuckDB is its own company.ShowHide
The company
DuckDB is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- An analytical SQL database management system
- Price stated
- 0 duckdb.org
- Starting price
- 0 duckdb.org
- Certifications
- MIT-licensed
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What DuckDB's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: duckdb.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 DuckDB'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 DuckDB, 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 DuckDB by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where DuckDB 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 DuckDB, 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.