🆚 Firebase Realtime Database vs. IndexedDB
- 📈 Firebase Realtime Database is twice as popular as IndexedDB.
- 🌎 Firebase Realtime Database is more popular in Japan, the United States, and India.
- 🌍 IndexedDB is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Firebase Realtime DatabaseType
Database technology
Database technology
About
The Firebase Realtime Database is a NoSQL cloud-hosted database developed by Google.
It stores data as 
JSON, synchronizes updates in real time across all connected clients, supports built-in offline persistence so apps continue working without network, and scales to around 200,000 concurrent client connections and 1,000 writes per second in a single database.
IndexedDB is a transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/Pricing
Free tier ✔️One database per project, 1 GB of storage + 10 GB/month of outbound traffic
Storage$5/GB
Outbound traffic$1/GB
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Firebase Realtime Database technology is 2.1 times more popular than IndexedDB.
Total websites
Market share
Databases
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Firebase Realtime Database is more popular in Japan, the United States, and India, while IndexedDB is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Russia
Japan
United States
India
Belarus
Ukraine
United Kingdom
France
Brazil
Germany
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Databases category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Databases category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Databases category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Firebase Realtime Database is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and general news, while IndexedDB is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
General News
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,363,931 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.