MariaDB vs MySQL

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

MariaDB · MySQL · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

MariaDB · MySQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 18,039

964,438

Japan 1,879

437,271

Germany 3,352

372,855

India 6,084

357,256

United Kingdom 4,631

320,617

France 2,883

311,273

Italy 2,554

290,337

Brazil 2,757

279,506

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All MariaDB sites · All MySQL sites