# NoSQL databases for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "NoSQL database" and as "document or key-value database service", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/enterprise

**Standing:** MongoDB leads with 53% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 59 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [MongoDB](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/mongodb/index.md) | 53% | 15% | 79 |
| 2 | [Amazon DynamoDB](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-dynamodb/index.md) | 17% | 16% | 67 |
| 3 | [Azure Cosmos DB](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-cosmos-db/index.md) | 12% | 9% | 53 |
| 4 | [Couchbase](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/couchbase/index.md) | 3% | 18% | 45 |
| 5 | [Apache Cassandra](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/apache-cassandra/index.md) | 3% | 28% | 47 |
| 6 | [Aerospike](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aerospike/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 12 |
| 7 | [Oracle NoSQL Database](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/oracle-nosql-database/index.md) | 3% | 9% | 11 |
| 8 | [Redis](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/redis/index.md) | 2% | 27% | 44 |
| 9 | [ScyllaDB](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/scylladb/index.md) | 2% | 24% | 21 |
| 11 | [Neo4j](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/neo4j/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 22 |
| 12 | [Amazon DocumentDB](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-documentdb/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 13 | [Google Cloud Bigtable](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-cloud-bigtable/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 10 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 55 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j
- GPT-5.4 mini: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase
- Perplexity Sonar: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j
- Grok 4.20: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase
- Mistral Small: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra
- Llama 4 Maverick: MongoDB
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j
- Kimi K2: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: no first choice
- MiniMax M2.5: MongoDB; alternatives Apache Cassandra, Neo4j, Redis
- GPT-6 Luna: MongoDB, PostgreSQL; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB
- Muse Glimmer 30B: MongoDB; alternatives Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, DataStax Astra DB

## Sources the answers cite

65 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 13 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- aerospike.com: 33 answers, 44 citations
- learn.microsoft.com: 24 answers, 31 citations
- mongodb.com: 23 answers, 49 citations
- docs.aws.amazon.com: 19 answers, 27 citations
- gane.ai/index: 18 answers, 18 citations
- couchbase.com: 17 answers, 24 citations
- aws.amazon.com: 17 answers, 19 citations
- windowsforum.com: 15 answers, 16 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://aerospike.com/blog/the-best-distributed-nosql-database (21 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/enterprise (17 answers)
- https://aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases (12 answers)
- https://thectoclub.com/tools/best-nosql-database (10 answers)
- https://windowsforum.com/news/best-enterprise-nosql-databases-in-2026-latency-scale-security-consistency.406641 (10 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/nosql-database-software (9 answers)
- https://github.com/quanpan302/KB-engineering-handbook/blob/main/content/hld/part-2-building-blocks/05-nosql-databases.md (8 answers)
- https://aws.amazon.com/nosql (7 answers)
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/NoSQL_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html (7 answers)
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-ownership (7 answers)

## Warned against

- Apache Cassandra: 13 of 47 labels negative. "Avoid self-managing Cassandra unless you have at least one engineer who specializes exclusively in distributed systems." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- MongoDB: 12 of 79 labels negative. ""MongoDB is a terrible database that should be avoided." ... Practical enterprise advice is to default away from it" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Amazon DynamoDB: 11 of 67 labels negative. "What to Avoid for Predictable Costs Amazon DynamoDB — ... becomes increasingly expensive and unpredictable as you scale" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Redis: 12 of 44 labels negative. "Avoid if your organization cannot accept the licensing ambiguity or potential restrictions on redistributing modified code." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: MongoDB at 53%.

- Azure Cosmos DB: 7% to 12%, +5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 3 of 55, unchanged.
- Couchbase: 7% to 3%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 4 of 55, unchanged.
- MongoDB: 56% to 53%, −3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 1 of 55, unchanged.
- Amazon DynamoDB: 16% to 17%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 55, unchanged.
- Apache Cassandra: 4% to 3%, −1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 5 of 55, unchanged.
- Aerospike: 2% to 3%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 9 → 6 of 55.
- Oracle NoSQL Database: 2% to 3%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 of 55, unchanged.
- Redis: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 of 55, unchanged.
- ScyllaDB: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 → 9 of 55.
- Neo4j: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 11 of 55, unchanged.
- Amazon DocumentDB: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 12 of 55, unchanged.
- Google Cloud Bigtable: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 13 of 55, unchanged.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.