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+
4
8
Open Page Rank 8+
48
77
Open Page Rank 7+
135
230
Open Page Rank 6+
198
377
Open Page Rank 5+
255
557
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
182
2,722
United States
332
2,401
Belgium
98
2,311
Spain
222
1,909
India
198
1,864
Germany
217
1,506
Indonesia
360
1,352
Mexico
139
1,553
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lucene | PostgreSQL |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 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.
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 |