🆚 IndexedDB vs. SQLite
- 📈 IndexedDB is four times more popular than SQLite.
- 🌎 IndexedDB is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and the United States.
- 🌍 SQLite is more popular in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SQLiteType
Database technology
Database technology
About
IndexedDB is a transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.
SQLite is a lightweight open source cross-platform single-file SQL database engine with zero-configuration and serverless architecture.
It implements most of SQL-92 standard, supports ACID transactions even after system crashes, offers 
JSON support and partial indexes, and allows databases up to about 281 terabytes.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️Open source
SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE)$2,000
Compressed And Encrypted Read-Only Database (CEROD)$2,000
ZIPVFS Read/Write Compressed Database Extension$4,000
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
IndexedDB database technology is 4 times more popular than SQLite.
Total websites
Market share
Databases
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
IndexedDB is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and the United States, while SQLite is more popular in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Russia
Poland
Belarus
Germany
Netherlands
United States
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
France
United Kingdom
Awards
- 🥈 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Databases category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Databases category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
IndexedDB is more popular than SQLite in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
General News
Internet Services
Games
Travel
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tarantool🗃️ 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 3,365,683 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.