Firebase vs MySQL

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Firebase · MySQL · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Firebase · MySQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 26,545

964,438

Japan 17,342

437,271

Germany 9,935

372,855

India 24,253

357,256

United Kingdom 10,516

320,617

France 8,879

311,273

Italy 7,047

290,337

Brazil 12,320

279,506

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Firebase sites · All MySQL sites