# Trino: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 16 judge labels across 2 categories by 11 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/trino

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Data virtualization](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-virtualization/index.md) | 15% | 4 | 13% | 15 |
| [Data warehouses](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/index.md) | 0% | 22 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for 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, Data virtualization)
- "Best starting point: Trino is widely recommended as "the open-source default and the one most teams should try first."" (Kimi K2, Data virtualization)
- "If you want the most active open-source community and pure SQL federation: start with Trino. It's free, well documented" (Muse Glimmer 30B, Data virtualization)
- "the best choice is usually Trino or a Trino-based platform rather than a premium enterprise product like Denodo" (GPT-5.4 mini, Data virtualization)

## And against it

- "Trino’s documentation says its default access control allows all authenticated users, so authorization must be deliberately configured." (GPT-6 Luna, Data virtualization)
- "Avoid hosting self-managed Trino, Presto, or Apache Drill clusters unless you have dedicated platform engineers." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Data virtualization)

## 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 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Trino, from 53 of the 57 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- g2.com: 30
- airbyte.com: 27
- scmgalaxy.com: 22
- thectoclub.com: 21
- sourceforge.net: 17
- gane.ai/index: 15
- dremio.com: 14
- starburst.io: 14
- peerspot.com: 13
- trino.io: 13 (its own site)

### Pages cited

- https://airbyte.com/top-etl-tools-for-sources/data-virtualization-tools: 27
- https://scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-data-virtualization-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison: 22
- https://thectoclub.com/tools/best-data-virtualization-software: 20
- https://g2.com/categories/data-virtualization/small-business: 16
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-virtualization/smb: 12
- https://sourceforge.net/software/data-virtualization: 11
- https://verifiedmarketresearch.com/blog/best-data-virtualization-software: 10
- https://etlclub.net/best-data-virtualization-platforms: 9

## In its own words

What Trino's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Trino is a high performance, distributed SQL query engine for big data. (https://trino.io/)
- For: data analysts and data scientists (https://trino.io/)
- Customers named: AWS, DiDi, Electronic Arts, Gett, Goldman Sachs, Grab, JioSaavn, Instacart

## What it publishes

Every page trino.io exposes, read 2026-09-29: 1031 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 192 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-18
- conference or event: 80 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2024-12-18
- report or ebook: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-08-02
- glossary or explainer: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 85 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-01-16
- Recent: 2026-07-18 blog: A pivotal summer https://trino.io/blog/2026/07/18/a-pivotal-summer.html
- Recent: 2026-07-01 blog: A pivotal summer https://trino.io/blog/2026/07/18/a-pivotal-summer
- Recent: 2026-06-26 blog: Summer of grammar https://trino.io/blog/2026/06/26/summer-of-grammar.html
- Recent: 2026-06-01 blog: Summer of grammar https://trino.io/blog/2026/06/26/summer-of-grammar
- Recent: 2026-03-25 blog: Number data type https://trino.io/blog/2026/03/25/number-data-type.html
- Recent: 2026-03-01 blog: Number data type https://trino.io/blog/2026/03/25/number-data-type

## 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.