🆚 IndexedDB vs. Web Storage
- 📈 Web Storage is much more popular than IndexedDB.
- 🌍 Web Storage is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ IndexedDB is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Database technology
Browser API
About
IndexedDB is a transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.
Web storage is a browser API and client-side key-value database that allows websites to store persistent data on users' devices.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Web Storage browser API is 520 times more popular than IndexedDB.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Web Storage is more popular than IndexedDB in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Web Storage is more popular than IndexedDB in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.