Every category where a model named IBM DataStage 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
ETL and ELT	Data platform	0%	64 of 66	80%	5	under 10 labels · led by Airbyte at 32%

Movement

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative9 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Legacy ETL Tools with Vendor Lock-in ... IBM DataStage” Kimi K2 · ETL · negative prompt · hard negative

“Informatica PowerCenter, Talend, Microsoft SSIS, and IBM DataStage deserve caution” Perplexity Sonar · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

“Why to be cautious: The learning curve is steep, licensing is incredibly expensive” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

“Monolithic, Legacy Enterprise Suites (Avoid unless Legacy is Required)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM DataStage, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM DataStage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fivetran25 of 285Not in the top three

Talend22 of 280Not in the top three

Airbyte19 of 283Not in the top three

Informatica PowerCenter15 of 281Not in the top three

AWS Glue15 of 280Not in the top three

Azure Data Factory14 of 280Not in the top three

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services14 of 280Not in the top three

Hevo Data11 of 281Not in the top three

Matillion11 of 281Not in the top three

dbt11 of 281Not 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 IBM DataStage. 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 23 of the 28 answers that named IBM DataStage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hevodata.com18

integrate.io18

fivetran.com15

sqream.com13

airbyte.com12

stacksync.com11

funnel.io9

coalesce.io8

estuary.dev8

freshcodeit.com8

120 of the 120 domain citations in answers naming IBM DataStage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

integrate.io/blog/top-7-etl-tools14

hevodata.com/learn/etl-tools-for-enterprise-data-integration13

sqream.com/blog/best-etl-tools13

fivetran.com/learn/etl-tools12

stacksync.com/blog/26-best-etl-tools-2025-curated-list11

freshcodeit.com/blog/top-5-enterprise-etl-tools8

airbyte.com/data-engineering-resources/best-tools-replace-legacy-etl-systems-enterprises7

estuary.dev/blog/etl-tools-list7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as IBM DataStage

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

IBM InfoSphere DataStage 2

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

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