Lucene vs PostgreSQL
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Lucene · PostgreSQL · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
6
Open Page Rank 8+
46
74
Open Page Rank 7+
125
222
Open Page Rank 6+
186
371
Open Page Rank 5+
257
571
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Lucene · PostgreSQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other
France
162
2,579
United States
310
2,245
Belgium
79
2,286
Spain
192
1,859
India
195
1,765
Mexico
139
1,545
Germany
187
1,464
Indonesia
319
1,231
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | PostgreSQL |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| 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.