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+
3
40
Open Page Rank 8+
46
485
Open Page Rank 7+
125
1,603
Open Page Rank 6+
186
2,756
Open Page Rank 5+
257
4,105
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
310
17,972
India
195
6,037
Canada
141
4,980
United Kingdom
184
4,715
Germany
187
3,303
Australia
100
3,208
France
162
2,921
Spain
192
2,827
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | MariaDB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.