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+
48
73
Open Page Rank 7+
133
226
Open Page Rank 6+
194
367
Open Page Rank 5+
255
554
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
169
2,482
United States
300
2,231
Belgium
82
2,141
India
205
1,732
Spain
188
1,657
Mexico
133
1,501
Germany
197
1,434
Indonesia
308
1,177
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, 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Lucene to PostgreSQL
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| semarangkota.go.id | Sep 2025 |
PostgreSQL to Lucene
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| semarangkota.go.id | Sep 2025 |