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
126
Open Page Rank 8+
48
2,703
Open Page Rank 7+
131
14,072
Open Page Rank 6+
192
33,129
Open Page Rank 5+
254
70,201
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
310
938,170
Japan
138
432,168
Germany
187
365,652
India
195
349,914
United Kingdom
184
317,628
France
162
315,111
Italy
180
304,444
Spain
192
283,742
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, 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.