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+
3
124
Open Page Rank 8+
48
2,710
Open Page Rank 7+
133
14,204
Open Page Rank 6+
194
33,480
Open Page Rank 5+
255
71,035
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
300
964,438
Japan
133
437,271
Germany
197
372,855
India
205
357,256
United Kingdom
189
320,617
France
169
311,273
Italy
175
290,337
Brazil
206
279,506
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | MySQL |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 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.