🆚 Firebase Realtime Database vs. IndexedDB
- 📈 Firebase Realtime Database is much more popular than IndexedDB.
- 🌎 Firebase Realtime Database is more popular in Japan, the United States, and India.
- 🌍 IndexedDB is more popular in the Czech Republic and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Firebase Realtime DatabaseType
Database
Database
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 8 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 the Czech Republic and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Japan
United States
India
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Indonesia
France
Brazil
Germany
Russia
Awards
- 🥈 Second 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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Databases category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States 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 marketing and merchandising, while IndexedDB is more commonly used on games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Travel
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 3,829,031 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.