Lucene vs MySQL
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Lucene · MySQL · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
128
Open Page Rank 8+
48
2,746
Open Page Rank 7+
135
14,437
Open Page Rank 6+
198
34,042
Open Page Rank 5+
255
72,222
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Lucene · MySQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
332
1,091,994
Japan
142
504,881
Germany
217
417,631
India
198
411,645
France
182
374,556
United Kingdom
206
368,735
Italy
206
339,212
Spain
222
310,543
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | MySQL |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 1100 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.