Every category where a model named Trino 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	Since September 2026
Data virtualization	Data platform	15%	2 of 99	17%	18	accepted challenger
Data warehouses	Data platform	0%	16 of 26	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Snowflake at 49%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Trino yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Trino across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	0	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labels2

Comparative10 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels12

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 17 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.

“Start with Trino if you have technical resources - it's the most widely adopted open-source option” Kimi K2 · Data virtualization · budget prompt · first choice

“Trino is the best data virtualization platform for a company with a limited budget” MiniMax M2.5 · Data virtualization · budget prompt · first choice

“Trino if you have technical talent and want to avoid licensing costs entirely” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data virtualization · budget prompt · first choice

“best value choice is usually an open-source federation engine like Trino” GPT-5.4 mini · Data virtualization · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Trino/Starburst-style solutions can work well, but they may be the wrong choice if your use case needs heavy governance, complex business semantics” GPT-5.4 mini · Data virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“called out as open-source platforms with no certifications, which makes them risky in regulated environments” Perplexity Sonar · Data virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

“Be cautious if you lack the team to own connectors, upgrades, security, and query tuning.” GPT-6 Luna · Data virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Trino, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trino was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Denodo45 of 546Compare →

Dremio26 of 542Compare →

Starburst19 of 541Compare →

TIBCO Data Virtualization19 of 540Compare →

Teiid14 of 541Not among the top eight

IBM Data Virtualization12 of 540Not among the top eight

Starburst Galaxy11 of 543Compare →

CData Virtuality6 of 544Compare →

Dremio Community Edition6 of 542Not among the top eight

Apache Drill6 of 540Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Trino. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 53 of the 54 answers that named Trino and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

airbyte.com34

checkthat.ai32

domo.com24

g2.com24

us.fitgap.com20

dremio.com19

sourceforge.net16

etlclub.net15

thectoclub.com15

denodo.com14

213 of the 213 domain citations in answers naming Trino came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools34

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-data-virtualization-solutions29

domo.com/learn/article/best-data-virtualization-platforms24

etlclub.net/best-data-virtualization-platforms15

thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-virtualization-software15

g2.com/categories/data-virtualization/small-business14

us.fitgap.com/search/data-virtualization-software/small-business14

worldmetrics.org/best/data-virtualization-software12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

trino.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Trino takes 15% of first choices and Denodo takes 28%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data virtualization platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“trino”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 941 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 11,954 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,734 · 88 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,045
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 2 of 99 in data virtualization

Segment leader

28%

Denodo

First choices: 14 across its categories
Named in: 54 answers
Its own site cited: in 53 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on trino.io

1,031

subdomains included

Content

359

counted in the table below

Documentation

648

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	192	2	2026-07-18
Podcast or video	85	0	2026-01-16
Conference or event	80	0	2024-12-18
Report or ebook	1	0	2022-08-02
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

Most recent

2026-07-18A pivotal summer blog
2026-07-01A pivotal summer blog
2026-06-26Summer of grammar blog
2026-06-01Summer of grammar blog
2026-03-25Number data type blog
2026-03-01Number data type blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page trino.io 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 Trino

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

Starburst/Trino 1Trino (Open Source) 1Trino/Starburst-style solutions 1

Follow Trino

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

Trino is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Trino is a high performance, distributed SQL query engine for big data.
trino.io
For: data analysts and data scientists
trino.io
Customers named: AWSDiDiElectronic ArtsGettGoldman SachsGrabJioSaavnInstacart
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Trino's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: trino.io, trino.io/docs/current/security/jwt.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Trino'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 Trino, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Trino by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Trino 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 Trino, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Trino is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Trino is among the products AI models recommend first in Data virtualization this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/trino--data-virtualization-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/trino--data-virtualization-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/data-virtualization/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/trino--data-virtualization-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Data virtualization, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data virtualization standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.