Lucene vs MariaDB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Lucene · MariaDB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
40
Open Page Rank 8+
48
492
Open Page Rank 7+
135
1,607
Open Page Rank 6+
198
2,775
Open Page Rank 5+
255
4,151
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Lucene · MariaDB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
332
20,518
India
198
6,798
Canada
149
5,557
United Kingdom
206
5,328
Germany
217
3,947
France
182
3,661
Australia
102
3,636
Spain
222
3,255
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | MariaDB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
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.