| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoSQL databases | Data platform | 59% | 1 of 72 | 13% | 69 | endorsed leader |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“MongoDB - If you need flexible schemas, strong query capabilities, and a mature ecosystem. Good for B2B apps with complex data relationships.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: MongoDB (via MongoDB Atlas) ... widely considered the safest, most flexible default choice for mid-market businesses.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · direct prompt · first choice
“For most small businesses, MongoDB and Redis are the easiest to start with due to their free tiers and strong community support.” Mistral Small · NoSQL · budget prompt · first choice
“For documents: Start with MongoDB Atlas. It's the most widely adopted, well-documented, and supported choice for B2B workloads” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
“Risk Level: High MongoDB has been the target of massive automated botnets in the past due to its default insecure settings.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative
“Frequent production stories of slow queries, memory leaks, long restarts at scale (e.g., 4TB+ clusters), shard key hotspots. Security exploits in older versions.” Grok 4.1 Fast · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“MongoDB (Be Cautious): ... the SSPL requires you to open-source your entire backend infrastructure” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Storage Bloat: MongoDB stores field names with every document ... It is known to be "heavy."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 131 of the 189 answers that named MongoDB and are not a share of its labels.
363 of the 415 domain citations in answers naming MongoDB came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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