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 20,518

1,091,994

Japan 2,225

504,881

Germany 3,947

417,631

India 6,798

411,645

France 3,661

374,556

United Kingdom 5,328

368,735

Italy 2,974

339,212

Spain 3,255

310,543

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, 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.

All MariaDB sites · All MySQL sites