Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

NetBeans vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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

NetBeans
Ranking in IDE
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
8
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 January 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of NetBeans is 2.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 4.3%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE
 

Featured Reviews

it_user725928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Any slowness is detected by the tool and can be reported
Free, quality, easy usage Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support. NetBeans Platform can be freely used as a desktop application base. All the functionality is prepared for me. I make only the business modules It has improved organizational productivity. Background scanning of…
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

"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier... For example, when working with Hibernate or with JPA, creating entities is very easy through a graphical interface."
"Server Support"
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"I have a lot of flexibility with it."
"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"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."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."
"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."
"The newer version has a lot of new features. It generates output and scripts for your Ultrix. It can generate JSON, XML, etc."
 

Cons

"There are always rooms for improvement for any product. The good thing with NetBeans is that since it is Open Source, you can just go ahead and contribute whatever you want to change yourself."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"I would like there to be better integration with Git, as there are IDEs such as Eclipse that offer this integration in a much more elegant way than NetBeans."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."
"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."
"There are occasional runtime issues that are easily worked around, especially on a Windows deployment."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"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."
"I would like it to support background processes better."
"If they had something on the Web then you wouldn't need to install it, just query, like Enterprise Manager."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"NetBeans is free and open source."
"It is an open source and free tool, with no changes, and the licensing allows me even to change source code, if I need."
"I am sad that CLion is not free. Currently, it has no support for Linux makefiles, only cmake, and this is a big mess."
"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."
"It's a no-cost license and it offers outstanding functionality on that basis."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which IDE solutions are best for your needs.
831,265 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
22%
Government
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Learn More

 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Weyco Group Inc.
Prinova
Find out what your peers are saying about NetBeans vs. Oracle SQL Developer and other solutions. Updated: January 2025.
831,265 professionals have used our research since 2012.