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Index › Vendors › Spark Streaming · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Spark Streaming

1Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Spark Streaming was named 1 time in Streaming, where Confluent Cloud 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-market37 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In streaming · 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 Spark Streaming 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
Streaming platforms	Data platform	0%	37 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 32%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
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-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 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.

“moved toward Apache Flink or Spark Streaming, which have vastly superior state management” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · negative 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 Spark Streaming, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spark Streaming was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Confluent Cloud1 of 11Not in the top three

Redpanda1 of 11Not in the top three

ActiveMQ1 of 10Not in the top three

Aiven for Apache Kafka1 of 10Not in the top three

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams1 of 10Not in the top three

Apache Flink1 of 10Not in the top three

Apache Kafka1 of 10Not in the top three

Apache Pulsar1 of 10Not in the top three

Apache Samza1 of 10Not in the top three

Apache Storm1 of 10Not 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.

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