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 17,972

938,170

Japan 1,883

432,168

Germany 3,303

365,652

India 6,037

349,914

United Kingdom 4,715

317,628

France 2,921

315,111

Italy 2,635

304,444

Spain 2,827

283,742

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, 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.

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