Firebase vs PostgreSQL

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 28,687

2,401

India 26,286

1,864

Japan 19,756

404

Indonesia 15,171

1,352

Brazil 13,242

760

Türkiye 12,673

503

France 10,113

2,722

United Kingdom 11,683

1,058

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 PostgreSQL sites