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+
126
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,703
0
Open Page Rank 7+
14,072
1
Open Page Rank 6+
33,129
1
Open Page Rank 5+
70,201
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
938,170
3
Japan
432,168
0
Germany
365,652
0
India
349,914
2
United Kingdom
317,628
1
France
315,111
1
Italy
304,444
6
Spain
283,742
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MySQL | SQLite |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 62 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 500 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.