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DuckDB

DuckDB is an open-source database that runs locally or embedded and is used as a lightweight data warehouse for analytics and data exploration · duckdb.org ↗

#6Best rank (small business)
8/14Models named it
1First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inData warehouses #6 small business
What AI models recommend

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Ultra-Cheap for Small Teams ... MotherDuck offers a managed cloud version with a generous free tier”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“MotherDuck / DuckDB (Simple, cheap, fast).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as DuckDB, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on DuckDB's own site, not checked by Gane.

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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named DuckDB came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 12 of the 18 answers that named DuckDB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

clickhouse.com8
g2.com7
fivetran.com6
skyvia.com6
valiotti.com6
motherduck.com5
tinybird.co4
capterra.com3
cloud.google.com3
getfairview.com3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming DuckDB came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on DuckDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

What it publishes

Addresses on duckdb.org
3,791
subdomains included
Content
642
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,356
Product · Integration
10 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Report or ebook617undated
Conference or event2372026-10-01
Blog1undated
News or press1undated

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page duckdb.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.