6 categories · RankedPostgreSQL
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time series databases | Data platform | 2% | 9 of 66 | 58% | 12 | criticized challenger | |
| NoSQL databases | Data platform | 2% | 6 of 73 | 0% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Managed relational databases | Data platform | 0% | 53 of 82 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon RDS at 45% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data warehouses | Data platform | 0% | 12 of 26 | 0% | 2 | 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. |
| ETL and ELT | Data platform | 0% | 51 of 75 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Fivetran at 40% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 0% | 94 of 98 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated PostgreSQL across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Start with PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB if your scale is modest. It minimizes new tooling and hiring complexity.” GPT-5.4 mini · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice
“Before choosing any NoSQL database, ask yourself: "Why can't I use PostgreSQL?"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · first choice
“If your data is highly normalized and relational ... stick to Postgres.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NoSQL · scale prompt · first choice
“modern trends suggest looking at PostgreSQL (specifically with JSONB) as the ultimate hybrid solution” Qwen 3.7 Flash · NoSQL · 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.
“they are not optimized for large volumes... making them poor choices for serious time series workloads” Mistral Small · Time series DBs · negative prompt · hard negative
“Databases Posing as Event Streams ... databases are not optimized for this pattern” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
“PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server are fine for *small-scale* time-series workloads, but ... they become a poor fit as ingest volume, retention, and query complexity grow.” Perplexity Sonar · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative
“General-purpose databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL can handle time-series workloads at small scale, but performance degrades” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PostgreSQL, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PostgreSQL was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 82 of the 106 answers that named PostgreSQL and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
234 of the 234 domain citations in answers naming PostgreSQL came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
postgresql.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PostgreSQL takes 2% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“postgresql”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 14,143 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 465,585 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 70,688 · 7,508 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 57,157
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 106 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 82 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 959 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 31 | 1 | 2026-08-07 | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 0 | 2025-11-13 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 7 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 5 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 3 | 0 | 2024-07-22 |
Most recent
Events in person
- November 24, 2026PostgreSQL Conference Poland – PGConf.PL 2026Gdansk, Poland
- November 27, 2026PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2026Chuo-ku, Japan
- September 30, 2026 to October 2, 2026Postgres Summit US 2026Convene 555 Broadway, New York, United States · attended
As the event pages on postgresql.org state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page postgresql.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 PostgreSQL
Follow PostgreSQL
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
PostgreSQL is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The world's most advanced open source database.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What PostgreSQL's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: postgresql.org, postgresql.org/support/security, postgresql.org/download/products/1. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 PostgreSQL'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 PostgreSQL, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PostgreSQL by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PostgreSQL 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 PostgreSQL, 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.