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 28,687

1,091,994

Japan 19,756

504,881

India 26,286

411,645

Germany 10,895

417,631

France 10,113

374,556

United Kingdom 11,683

368,735

Italy 7,838

339,212

Brazil 13,242

307,911

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, Jun 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