MariaDB vs PostgreSQL
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MariaDB · PostgreSQL · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
40
8
Open Page Rank 8+
492
77
Open Page Rank 7+
1,607
230
Open Page Rank 6+
2,775
377
Open Page Rank 5+
4,151
557
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MariaDB · PostgreSQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
20,518
2,401
India
6,798
1,864
Canada
5,557
996
United Kingdom
5,328
1,058
France
3,661
2,722
Germany
3,947
1,506
Spain
3,255
1,909
Mexico
2,889
1,553
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MariaDB | PostgreSQL |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 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, 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.