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+
48
482
Open Page Rank 7+
133
1,602
Open Page Rank 6+
194
2,772
Open Page Rank 5+
255
4,135
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
300
18,039
India
205
6,084
Canada
141
4,858
United Kingdom
189
4,631
Germany
197
3,352
Australia
98
3,279
France
169
2,883
Brazil
206
2,757
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | MariaDB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.