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
6
Open Page Rank 8+
482
73
Open Page Rank 7+
1,602
226
Open Page Rank 6+
2,772
367
Open Page Rank 5+
4,135
554
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
18,039
2,231
India
6,084
1,732
Canada
4,858
875
United Kingdom
4,631
956
France
2,883
2,482
Germany
3,352
1,434
Spain
2,725
1,657
Mexico
2,536
1,501
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, 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.