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+
128
4
Open Page Rank 8+
2,746
48
Open Page Rank 7+
14,437
135
Open Page Rank 6+
34,042
198
Open Page Rank 5+
72,222
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
1,091,994
330
Japan
504,881
141
Germany
417,631
211
India
411,645
196
France
374,556
180
United Kingdom
368,735
204
Italy
339,212
204
Spain
310,543
219
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MySQL | Solr |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 600 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.