Eclipse Luna vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

Eclipse Foundation and Oracle are both solutions in the IDE category. Eclipse Foundation is ranked #14, while Oracle is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0. Eclipse Foundation holds a 1.5% mindshare in IDE, compared to Oracle’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Eclipse Foundation users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Eclipse Luna

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle SQL Developer

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93% willing to recommend

Eclipse Luna

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Eclipse Luna and Oracle SQL Developer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IDE solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse Luna

Ranking in IDE

14th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

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

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 1.5%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 4.1%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IDE Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle SQL Developer	4.1%
Eclipse Luna	1.5%
Other	94.4%

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RahulJain7

Technical Lead at Infoobects Pvt. Ltd.

Good plugins and helpful templates with a useful auto-code suggestion feature

Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast. Thanks to Eclipse, we can deliver fast and well-compiled code as it compiles the code on every hit which stops developers from writing bad code instantly. On top of this, we can integrate other software like Tomcat, and MySQL in Eclipse very easily which makes development even faster. Now, we can deploy our Java app directly into Tomcat from Eclipse itself which saves a lot of time in development. The same thing is true in MySQL. we can see data in Eclipse itself using SQL queries. There's no need to install a query browser application.

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Vikram_Kumar

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."

"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."

"It works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."

"I have a lot of flexibility with it."

"It allows us to implement a form of test driven development (TDD) for database-resident code."

"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."

"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."

"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."

"The newer version has a lot of new features. It generates output and scripts for your Ultrix. It can generate JSON, XML, etc."

"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."

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Cons

"The development of the product needs improvement."

"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."

"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."

"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I would like it to support background processes better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It has the advantage that it's free. The next best competitor would cost several thousand dollars."

"It's a free tool."

"It is basically free."

"It's a no-cost license and it offers outstanding functionality on that basis."

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Financial Services Firm

23%

Insurance Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	19

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Overview

Eclipse Luna includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse workbench provides a new dark theme, split editors, line numbers on by default, reduced whitespace in default presentation, ability to hide the "quick access" bar and fitting syntax highlighter setting for the editor of several programming languages. Paho provides open source implementations of open and standard messaging protocols that support current and emerging requirements of M2M integration with Web and Enterprise middleware and applications. EcoreTools, the graphical modeler for Ecore, has been completely re-implemented based on Sirius and provides a nicer graphical design, support for documenting your model, specifying domain constraints and modeling Generic Types. It provides a standalone C/C++ debugger application that is added to the CDT to help debug an application via the command line and have an Eclipse UI debugger pop up.

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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.

For more information on Oracle SQL Developer, visit Oracle.com

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