🆚 IndexedDB vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than IndexedDB.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ IndexedDB is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XMLHttpRequestType
Database technology
Browser API
About
IndexedDB is a transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/Pricing
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Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 120 times more popular than IndexedDB.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than IndexedDB in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Australia
India
France
Japan
Netherlands
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 British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than IndexedDB in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Travel
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.