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Databases: September 2026
The final September 2026 standings for “What database should I use?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · September 2026
569 sampled answers · 10 models
- 1PostgreSQL▼ 31.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8 · GLM 5.2—
- 2Supabase▼ 15.50.2%Claude Opus 4.8· quiet
- 3MongoDB▼ 22.90.2%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 4MySQL▼ 21.20.2%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 5PlanetScale▼ 10.10.2%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 6Neon▼ 130%not named this month—
Biggest mover: PostgreSQL ▼ 31.3 pts vs the previous month
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 10 AI models, PostgreSQL is named in 0.3% of answers about databases (2 of 10 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What database should I use? (recommendation)
- ›Which managed Postgres provider is best? (comparison)
- ›What are the best databases for a new web app? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 569 answers across 4 probe runs fed this month.