2 categories · RankedTrino
Trino is an open-source federated query engine used for query-based data virtualization and for running queries on lake and warehouse data across multiple systems · trino.io ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: seven labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Starburst Galaxy is first at 25%.
Denodo is first at 31%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Denodo is first at 84%.
Why models recommend it
“Trino is the best choice if you have even modest technical talent on your team — it's completely free, proven, and widely used”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best starting point: Trino is widely recommended as "the open-source default and the one most teams should try first."”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you want the most active open-source community and pure SQL federation: start with Trino. It's free, well documented”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“the best choice is usually Trino or a Trino-based platform rather than a premium enterprise product like Denodo”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Trino’s documentation says its default access control allows all authenticated users, so authorization must be deliberately configured.”GPT-6 Luna · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Avoid hosting self-managed Trino, Presto, or Apache Drill clusters unless you have dedicated platform engineers.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Trino, over the 57 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Trino →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Trino's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- data analysts and data scientists
- Customers named
- AWS, DiDi, Electronic Arts, Gett, Goldman Sachs, Grab, JioSaavn, Instacart
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
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 53 of the 57 answers that named Trino and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
158 of the 186 domain citations in answers naming Trino came from a third party's page. Fifteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.