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Pentaho Data Integration

17Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

9 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

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pentaho Data Integration was named 8 times in ETL, where Airbyte led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business48 of 56

under the label threshold

Mid-market50 of 66

under the label threshold

Enterprise66 of 67

under the label threshold

In etl · 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 Pentaho Data Integration 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%	50 of 66	38%	8	under 10 labels · led by Airbyte at 32%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 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.

“Pentaho Kettle - An open-source ETL tool that caters to data engineers and business analysts” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ETL · budget prompt · alternative

“Visual ETL jobs? Pentaho.” Grok 4.1 Fast · ETL · 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.

“Why to avoid: Desktop-based architecture (causes warehouse egress fees), poor scalability, maintenance challenges” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ETL · negative prompt · hard negative

“Pentaho comes with drawbacks, including a limited set of templates and technical issues.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

“the development pace has slowed significantly ... It lacks native cloud-native features” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ETL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pentaho Data Integration, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pentaho Data Integration was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Airbyte13 of 175Not in the top three

Fivetran12 of 172Not in the top three

Talend12 of 171Not in the top three

Apache Airflow10 of 171Not in the top three

Apache NiFi9 of 171Not in the top three

AWS Glue9 of 170Not in the top three

Stitch7 of 170Not in the top three

Hevo Data6 of 172Not in the top three

Azure Data Factory6 of 170Not in the top three

dbt6 of 170Not 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 Pentaho Data Integration. 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 11 of the 17 answers that named Pentaho Data Integration and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

integrate.io10

hevodata.com7

airbyte.com5

coalesce.io5

dataexpert.io5

estuary.dev5

dataquest.io4

sqream.com4

checkthat.ai3

freshcodeit.com3

No domain is on file for Pentaho Data Integration, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

coalesce.io/all-things-data/hidden-costs-of-etl-tools5

dataexpert.io/blog/open-source-etl-tools-comparison-guide-20265

dataquest.io/blog/etl-tools-practical-guide-with-examples4

hevodata.com/learn/top-free-open-source-etl-tools-to-consider4

integrate.io/blog/top-7-etl-tools4

sqream.com/blog/best-etl-tools4

estuary.dev/blog/etl-tools-list3

freshcodeit.com/blog/top-5-enterprise-etl-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Pentaho Data Integration

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

Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) 2Kettle (Pentaho Data Integration - PDI) 1Pentaho 1Pentaho Data Integration (Community Edition) 1Pentaho PDI 1

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