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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
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of JetBrains IDEs is 5.3%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 4.4%, down from 5.0% 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

"Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best."
"Good support for refactoring."
"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."
"I have a lot of flexibility with it."
"The newer version has a lot of new features. It generates output and scripts for your Ultrix. It can generate JSON, XML, etc."
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"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."
"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"
"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."
 

Cons

"One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory."
"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"The initial setup is always a problem, it cannot find the Java SDK."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"I would like it to support background processes better."
"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."
"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."
 

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

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Government
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Insurance Company
9%
 

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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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