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JetBrains IDEs vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

JetBrains IDEs
Ranking in IDE
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle SQL Developer
Ranking in IDE
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of JetBrains IDEs is 4.3%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 3.9%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Paco Velasco Reina - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows the development Microsoft products on Linux with good plugins and integrations
One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory. You also need a very powerful computer compared to Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Enterprise. An important improvement would be the case of having more than one instance open. It is common to have more than one instance because of developing linked microservices or frontend/backend at the same time. Memory usage in this case should be optimized. The debugging of objects and their manipulation is also not optimal. Sometimes it is difficult to observe variables or very complex objects. There are also memory overflows that sometimes cause debugging to stop.
Theodoros Loizou - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful features, simple implementation, and scalable
For first-time users of Oracle SQL Developer, it's going to be a bit difficult, but they can find their way around over time. I rate Oracle SQL Developer a nine out of ten. I didn't face any other issues other than it being a bit slow when you have a lot of work to do.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Good support for refactoring."
"Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best."
"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."
"It allows us to implement a form of test driven development (TDD) for database-resident code."
"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"I like it because it's very similar in output to SQL *Plus, and it has many convenience features that make it easier to read the data and use the basic reporting features it provides."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."
"It's easy to deploy, I can copy it onto the system and run it without having to install it and this makes it a very good solution for quick use."
"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."
"I have a lot of flexibility with it."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
"One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory."
"The initial setup is always a problem, it cannot find the Java SDK."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"I would like it to support background processes better."
"I think it would be great to have an overview over the sessions it opens so that we could easily see and control which connections to the database we want to keep open, which ones are hanging; and it would be great to make them independent from each other."
"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."
"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"The stability depends on what version you're using. There are more successful versions and are less successful versions. For example, 17.3 is less successful. There were many bugs. Now, we are trying to pull all the developers to upgrade to 17.4."
"The competing products have more features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"It's a free tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Insurance Company
7%
 

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JetBrains IDEs?
The licenses are quite expensive, especially considering that there is a free version of Visual Studio. However, the licenses come down in price as they are rolled out annually, which is a welcome ...
What needs improvement with JetBrains IDEs?
One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory. You also need a very powerful computer compared to Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Enterprise. An imp...
What is your primary use case for JetBrains IDEs?
Our main use case is to program APIs in Microsoft Net Core >= 2.2. The development of APIs under JetBrains Rider allows us to use the Microsoft framework under Linux natively as if we were doing...
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