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1 category · Named, not ranked

Kyndryl

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kyndryl was named 2 times in Managed databases, where Amazon RDS led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market31 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise19 of 78

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 Kyndryl 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	0%	31 of 73	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 32%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

“good fit for larger mid-market companies with complex needs” Mistral Small · Managed databases · direct 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 Kyndryl, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kyndryl was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon RDS5 of 61Not in the top three

Google Cloud SQL4 of 60Not in the top three

Pythian4 of 60Not in the top three

Azure SQL Database2 of 61Not in the top three

Rackspace Technology2 of 61Not in the top three

Instaclustr2 of 60Not in the top three

Alibaba Cloud1 of 60Not in the top three

IBM Db2 Warehouse1 of 60Not in the top three

Maxima Consulting1 of 60Not 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 Kyndryl. 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 6 of the 6 answers that named Kyndryl and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gitnux.org6

aws.amazon.com3

ciopages.com2

cloudexpat.com2

dbvis.com2

instaclustr.com2

northflank.com2

startupik.com2

wifitalents.com2

worldmetrics.org2

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Kyndryl came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gitnux.org/service/managed-database6

aws.amazon.com/rds3

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/database-platform2

cloudexpat.com/compare/rds-vs-azure-sql-vs-cloud-sql2

dbvis.com/thetable/best-database-as-a-service-dbaas-solutions-of-20252

northflank.com/blog/best-database-providers2

zipdo.co/service/database-managed2

auxiliar.ai/database1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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