Oracle SQL Developer Reviews

Name: Oracle SQL Developer
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (30 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

30 reviews
92% willing to recommend

293 followers

What is Oracle SQL Developer?

Oracle SQL Developer is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle.

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Oracle SQL Developer is the #5 ranked solution in top IDE solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle SQL Developer an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle SQL Developer is most commonly compared to AWS Cloud9: Oracle SQL Developer vs AWS Cloud9. Oracle SQL Developer is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured reviews

it_user506928

Assistant Director, Applications Development Services in the Student Collaboration Center at Temple University

Because I work in higher education, and budget dollars are always limited, the fact that this product is delivered at no cost to us as Oracle users is phenomenal. Only a small fraction of our in-house staff are using another solution to write code that affects our student information system (SIS). IT staff supporting the SIS could not do our jobs without SQL Developer.

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it_user521805

Manager - Technical at Molina Healthcare

One of the options that I would like to see is the cloud solution (if they have any) because we already implemented the HCM module last year. We took out the HR part from JD Edwards and moved it into the cloud. That is one of the features that I would like to see, if there is some integration between cloud and organized applications.

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Martin Klier

Senior Database Consultant at Performing Databases

It makes life easier because I don't need to install something onsite when I am with a customer. And, since it's free, it helps me to unify and streamline my approach over multiple projects so I don't have to have a different approach for different customers. The new version 18 is really helpful, with a more flexible GUI and more reliable connectors.

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Oracle SQL Developer mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer in the IDE category stands at 4.3%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	IDE	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle SQL Developer vs Codespaces	Jan 10, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle SQL Developer vs JetBrains IDEs	Jan 10, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
AWS Cloud9	0.0	28.7%	0%	0 interviews Add to research
Codeium	0.0	N/A	0%	0 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"You can install it on every platform. It just works. The other thing is that it's free. And Oracle is committed to the development of the tool, so it has been improving."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."

Room for Improvement

"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"It's more stable sometimes and less stable other times. I have used it in Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's variable, it's not the same stability. I think that can be improved on."
"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."

Pricing

"It is basically free."
"It has the advantage that it's free. The next best competitor would cost several thousand dollars."
"It's a no-cost license and it offers outstanding functionality on that basis."

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