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JetBrains IDEs vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle SQL Developer
Ranking in IDE
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of JetBrains IDEs is 7.7%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 6.0%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SQL Developer6.0%
JetBrains IDEs7.7%
Other86.3%
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Featured Reviews

Souhardyya Biswas - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Long-term coding has benefited from intuitive UI and tools but now needs lighter performance
I am using the code completion feature in IntelliJ, and it helps me with my development processes. I use advanced debugging tools. The advanced debugging tools are useful for resolving code issues. The integration with version controls is seamless. GitHub is what I use. For my professional role, I need to use GitHub Enterprise, and the way it is set up in my enterprise, it does not allow linking it with IntelliJ. That is where I am stuck using the CLI. GitHub itself has a very robust CLI, so I have no complaints there. For personal use, GitHub integrates really well with IntelliJ. The UI is pretty good and very intuitive. I actually use the new UI which IntelliJ provides, and that is very intuitive and good.
Vikram_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at Ontario Power Generation
Has improved development efficiency through reusable components and intuitive programming features
When errors occur while programming, they are very generic. Even when searching the internet, the errors remain generic and it takes considerable time to understand the fix. This was predominantly felt because we were mostly working on writing code and developing features. Error handling needs to be improved. The patches and upgrade process is very long. In the last year and a half, I haven't upgraded, so we don't know if latest features have arrived. Another issue is with sessions. If we were working on code and then switch off our laptop for two to three days, the session would keep running. This consumes many resources and flags to the team that a user has been continuously using Oracle SQL Developer. There should be a timeout period for inactive sessions.

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."
"The best features offered by JetBrains IDEs include a super attractive set of language-specific tools including debuggers, symbol monitors, and the extensions that come with it, which helps me get a much more in-depth view of my code rather than relying on print or log statements."
"It seems to me as one of the best IDEs in the market, they are always releasing new versions with positive improvements, and in my opinion, I recommend it in its entirety."
"Fast, and I never had a crash."
"From the very beginning to the deepest thing I could possibly want to develop, I believe I could do it all using JetBrains IDEs."
"Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best."
"The UI is pretty good and very intuitive."
"The main benefit of SQL Developer is that it is free."
"In my work in BI development I find that Oracle SQL Developer is the main tool in my tool box."
"The newer version has a lot of new features. It generates output and scripts for your Ultrix. It can generate JSON, XML, etc."
"Very, very impressed with the development and product management team for this particular tool."
"It allows us to implement a form of test driven development (TDD) for database-resident code."
"Oracle is tremendous, and I have always said to everybody, without knowing other databases, that Oracle is the best database that can exist in this world."
"Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE that also provides a lot of tools for creating ad hoc reports and organizing your objects; those are the main use cases I would say."
"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
"One of the main issues with JetBrains IDEs is that it is very heavy, taking a lot of time to load and using a lot of memory."
"I see as a disadvantage the high prices of the license purchase that is almost $ 500 per year since this limits the use of IDE and especially for those developers who work on their own since it requires a large investment."
"I have noticed that when I switch to less powerful machines, IntelliJ seems to use up the RAM and the machine gets really slow and really hot quite quickly, which is not the case with Visual Studio."
"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
"One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory."
"One thing I think could be improved in JetBrains IDEs is the integration with ChatGPT, which I feel could be deeper."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"It's not so stable. Sometimes it crashes, and the connection to the databases is bad."
"SQL Developer only shows a snapshot of the execution statistics and performance metrics at the moment you request the report."
"My only complaint over the years has been memory usage, which seems to improve with each release."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"They were not supportive. I didn't get a solution."
"Scalability has room for improvement. Often if you have to do a heavy load of queries or are getting large result sets you have to be careful not to overload the Java virtual machine that's running."
"The competing products have more features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Wholesaler/Distributor
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Educational Organization
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JetBrains IDEs?
I am aware of the pricing and licensing of JetBrains IDEs, which I believe is around ninety-nine dollars for a year. I find that to be a very reasonable rate.
What needs improvement with JetBrains IDEs?
One thing I think could be improved in JetBrains IDEs is the integration with ChatGPT, which I feel could be deeper. Some of it is a bit sketchy; it would be great to be able to follow the same thr...
What is your primary use case for JetBrains IDEs?
I use JetBrains IDEs for building applications with Python as the backend. I use JetBrains IDEs as my IDE for really everything, including for database management. I connect through my database the...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle SQL Developer?
The pricing of Oracle SQL Developer depends on the size of the company and the project. I cannot use Oracle or other solutions if I am just starting. If I start with MySQL, it depends on the size o...
What needs improvement with Oracle SQL Developer?
I want to address performance issues with large amounts of data. When I run queries that return lakhs or millions of rows, Oracle SQL Developer sometimes freezes, takes time to load, or even crashe...
What is your primary use case for Oracle SQL Developer?
In my current project at Cognizant, Oracle SQL Developer is one of the targets to load the data after extracting and transforming it, so this is our use case for my project. For example, I was at a...
 

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Sample Customers

Citi, Siemens, Salesforce, Twitter, HP, New York Times, Pintrest, Airbnb, Expedia, Samsung, Volkswagen, Wikipedia, NASA
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