MySQL vs Solr
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MySQL · Solr · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
124
3
Open Page Rank 8+
2,710
48
Open Page Rank 7+
14,204
133
Open Page Rank 6+
33,480
194
Open Page Rank 5+
71,035
255
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MySQL · Solr · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
964,438
298
Japan
437,271
133
Germany
372,855
191
India
357,256
203
United Kingdom
320,617
187
France
311,273
167
Italy
290,337
173
Brazil
279,506
206
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MySQL | Solr |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 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.