MySQL vs SQLite
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MySQL · SQLite · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
128
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,746
0
Open Page Rank 7+
14,437
1
Open Page Rank 6+
34,042
1
Open Page Rank 5+
72,222
2
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MySQL · SQLite · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,091,994
3
Japan
504,881
0
Germany
417,631
0
India
411,645
3
France
374,556
1
United Kingdom
368,735
1
Italy
339,212
7
Spain
310,543
1
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MySQL | SQLite |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 500 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.