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1 category · Named, not ranked

Riak

7Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

5 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Riak was named 3 times in NoSQL, where MongoDB led with 59%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business37 of 47

under the label threshold

Mid-market72 of 72

under the label threshold

Enterprise46 of 48

under the label threshold

In nosql · 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 Riak 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
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	72 of 72	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 59%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

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.

“Effectively a legacy product now. Basho (its creator) shut down in 2017... Hard to justify picking it fresh.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative

“Riak’s adoption has declined, leading to reduced community support and fewer updates.” Mistral Small · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative

“Riak (core stalled) ... No updates = unpatched vulns, no support.” Grok 4.1 Fast · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Riak, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Riak was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Apache Cassandra7 of 71Not in the top three

MongoDB7 of 70Not in the top three

Redis7 of 70Not in the top three

Amazon DynamoDB6 of 71Not in the top three

Couchbase6 of 70Not in the top three

Apache CouchDB5 of 70Not in the top three

ScyllaDB5 of 70Not in the top three

Neo4j4 of 70Not in the top three

Apache HBase3 of 70Not in the top three

Aerospike2 of 70Not 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 Riak. 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 7 answers that named Riak and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

voltactivedata.com6

aerospike.com4

alex-klaus.com4

journalofbigdata.springeropen.com3

kkovacs.eu3

rubrik.com3

windowsforum.com3

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org2

cs.clarku.edu2

dbdb.io2

Thirty-two of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Riak came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

voltactivedata.com/blog/2021/10/nosql-due-diligence-part-16

aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases4

alex-klaus.com/reasons-not-to-nosql4

journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-015-0025-03

kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis3

rubrik.com/blog/architecture/19/2/challenges-nosql-management-architect3

windowsforum.com/news/best-enterprise-nosql-databases-in-2026-latency-scale-security-consi3

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/NoSQL_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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