Firebase vs SQLite
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Firebase · SQLite · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
28
0
Open Page Rank 8+
335
0
Open Page Rank 7+
1,163
1
Open Page Rank 6+
2,145
1
Open Page Rank 5+
3,570
2
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Firebase · SQLite · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
26,814
3
India
24,552
2
Japan
17,162
0
Indonesia
13,449
0
Brazil
12,484
0
Türkiye
11,210
0
United Kingdom
10,730
1
Germany
9,842
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Firebase | SQLite |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 62 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.