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+
2,700
46
Open Page Rank 7+
14,032
125
Open Page Rank 6+
32,987
186
Open Page Rank 5+
69,745
257
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
938,170
307
Japan
432,168
138
Germany
365,652
180
India
349,914
193
United Kingdom
317,628
182
France
315,111
160
Italy
304,444
178
Spain
283,742
189
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, 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.