Oracle Enterprise Manager vs Toad for Oracle comparison

Oracle and Quest Software are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Oracle is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2, while Quest Software is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.3. Oracle holds a 3.1% mindshare in DDM, compared to Quest Software’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

Oracle Enterprise Manager

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Oracle Enterprise Manager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Enterprise Manager and Toad for Oracle compete in the database management category. Oracle Enterprise Manager appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities, despite its complexity and higher cost.

Features: Oracle Enterprise Manager offers real-time monitoring, SQL tuning, and support for hybrid clouds. It includes SLA management and a self-service application. Toad for Oracle focuses on SQL development with robust query tuning, schema browsing, and debugging features, along with excellent integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Enterprise Manager requires enhancements in its user interface, scalability, and patch management. Improved installation processes and better documentation are needed. Toad for Oracle could benefit from performance improvements, enhanced logging for crashes, and better code optimization and reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Enterprise Manager is primarily deployed on-premises, with cloud integration necessitating considerable deployment and management effort. Customer support receives mixed reviews. Toad for Oracle is also on-premises, praised for its usability and good technical support, yet users request a consistent support escalation process.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Enterprise Manager can be expensive, particularly with its advanced packs, but its monitoring capabilities offer justified ROI. Toad for Oracle is similarly costly but valued for improving productivity in database development, reflecting its worth for Oracle database-reliant teams.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Ranking in Database Development and Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

129

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (7th)

Toad for Oracle

Ranking in Database Development and Management

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Enterprise Manager is 3.1%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad for Oracle is 2.7%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Enterprise Manager	3.1%
Toad for Oracle	2.7%
Other	94.2%

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reviewer996648

Founder and President at a training & coaching company with 1-10 employees

Extensive functionality impresses despite occasional setup complexity

The functions and features of Oracle Enterprise Manager that I have found most valuable are its evolution from being problematic in 10g and 11g versions to becoming better and more stable. Now it has become a significantly improved product. We have integrated identity management, and we are using it for normal database examination, tuning, and performance. We are working with STATSPACK and similar tools that are integrated in Oracle Enterprise Manager. We are currently working with version 13.5, having upgraded from 13.4 last year. Automation is useful for improving operational efficiency, and there are many more opportunities to automate outside the databases. Not many things need to be automated inside the databases. We have jobs running, imports, exports, and similar tasks. To automate these processes, we utilize the Scheduler from Oracle, which is managed in the databases by the vendor. This is not part of our DBA functions in Oracle Enterprise Manager.

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Mark Stocks

Vice President, Director Enterprise Architecture at JE Dunn Construction

Uses trusted data to support financial forecasting and automate complex calculations through daily development workflows

The best features Toad for Oracle offers are the ability to access the database objects and see them in a very simplified manner. The simplified view helps me in my work as it makes troubleshooting easier. Toad for Oracle has positively impacted our organization because our financial forecasting data set is trusted throughout the company because of the ability for us to debug and analyze the data with Toad for Oracle. This trust in the data set has affected business decisions and efficiency by creating a completely separate data department because of the value that we saw with our data because of how we were able to organize and extract data from Oracle with Toad for Oracle.

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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

"The single-pane and single interface in the centralized system is the most valuable feature."

"The 13cR2 updates to the OEM family, strongly integrate Cloud (off-site, hybrid and on-premise) services providing a seamless way to see all of your resources regardless of where they are deployed."

"With ASH Analytics, ADDM, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, SQL Tuning Advisor, we can measure SLAs, detect performance hotspots, perform deep diagnostics into specific tiers, tune applications, and remediate."

"I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."

"We can manage everything in our environment."

"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager eight out of 10 for stability."

"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."

"There are a number of different user interfaces you can choose from."

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"One of the most valuable features of Toad for Oracle is its ability to manage sessions by killing those that are hung or blocking other sessions."

"The product's most valuable features are UI and monitoring."

"A quite simple feature that I have not encountered elsewhere is the "Make Code" feature. I can easily export a complex SQL statement to a programming language. This is a great timesaver as I do not have to type in all of the escape/concatenation characters just to create a SQL statement in C# or C++."

"I haven't seen any issues with scalability. We have about 1000 people on our IT team who use the solution."

"I find Toad easy to use and I love the Workspace feature, which allows me to set up projects so that I can open SQL files applicable to what I am working on at any particular time."

"Oracle has advanced query optimization and tuning features that help improve the performance of SQL queries."

"Toad for Oracle has positively impacted our organization because our financial forecasting data set is trusted throughout the company because of the ability for us to debug and analyze the data with Toad for Oracle."

"The most valuable feature is the navigation within the UI, where you can right-click on an object in an SQL query and go right to it, versus going through all of the menus to find what you are looking for."

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Cons

"Oracle Enterprise Manager's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"We could use it but definitely with some effort we can streamline much better and sometimes some box here and there, like 13C you have to really wait, but there are great features. Just have to make sure it is a stable product."

"Better mobile access would be useful."

"The deployment is not straightforward."

"I would like to improve the cost."

"I feel more dashboards can be added, especially those useful to higher levels of IT management."

"The solution’s stability could be improved."

"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."

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"There should also be a better "cancel query" option as sometimes one cancels a query, but then it still might run for a long time, and then one has to crash Toad in order to cancel the query."

"Toad for Oracle does not have a particular resolution within the application."

"It would be beneficial if Toad for Oracle could incorporate OEM features, as having monitoring capabilities in the same interface would simplify workload and management tasks."

"Once in a while, I may encounter a memory exception and have to abort the application. On a few occasions, the file that stores the saved connections for the New Connection window will become corrupt and I will lose all of my saved connections. I am not sure if that is a Windows or TOAD issue, but it has happened to all of my developers at some point or another."

"Sometimes it works in some areas, but in others, it doesn't. Like when you copy, you find that it's blank and doesn't copy anything. So, there are some objects that do copy, and sometimes they don't."

"The way the dialog boxes appear can be improved."

"I would like to see an improvement in the performance because opening the browser and the editor should be faster."

"Query optimization is still very resource-intensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

"I rate Oracle Enterprise Manager’s pricing a five out of ten."

"The basic functions are free. You only pay license fees for advanced features."

"It's expensive."

"The licensing is the responsibility of our customers."

"As far as I know, you do not pay for Oracle Enterprise Manager separately. You can use Enterprise Manager for free if you already have an Oracle license for your database."

"Based upon 3 days of implementation by a single person, plus licensing costs would be approximately $60,000, including the virtualized hosts."

"There are a few bugs with the software which require opening SRs with Oracle Support which contribute to the day-to-day cost. Perhaps 8 hours per month is spent dealing with support, just as a rough guess."

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"The product's pricing is just right because if it were slightly higher, it would not have been as widely adopted as it currently is in our organization."

"My advice is to try to use the three-year maintenance agreement if possible."

"The professional edition is about $1,000 AUD ($700 USD) and the developer version is about twice that much."

"Toad for Oracle has a relatively high cost compared to other similar tools."

"The pricing is okay, it's reasonable."

"There are paid and free-for-use versions of the product."

"In my opinion, this solution is a little expensive, but I understand that good programs cost more money."

"I would rate it six, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

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Financial Services Firm

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

10%

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	25
Large Enterprise	81

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager?

What I like most about Oracle Enterprise Manager are its features, particularly the active session history. It provides insights into SQL, and I use it regularly to identify potential issues.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Enterprise Manager?

I would rate the pricing of Oracle Enterprise Manager as very expensive, definitely deserving a 10 out of 10.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Enterprise Manager?

The weaknesses I would like to address in Oracle Enterprise Manager involve the dealing of Grid Infrastructure. Oracle Enterprise Manager's handling of Grid Infrastructure needs some improvement. I...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad for Oracle?

The licensing cost for Toad for Oracle is relatively high, with their license and DPA suite totaling around five thousand dollars.

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What needs improvement with Toad for Oracle?

Toad for Oracle can be improved by working with Microsoft Fabric.

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What is your primary use case for Toad for Oracle?

My main use case for Toad for Oracle is accessing data in Oracle and building PL/SQL database objects, packages, procedures, and functions. A quick specific example of how I use Toad for Oracle in ...

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Overview

Oracle Enterprise Manager is an on-premises management platform that provides a comprehensive integrated solution for managing and automating your various Oracle products, including applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and engineered systems located either in your Oracle data center or in the cloud.

With the Oracle Enterprise Manager's console, you can administer multiple databases and servers, distribute software to multiple servers and clients, monitor objects and events throughout the network, and integrate with other tools.

Key Oracle Enterprise Manager Features and Products

Hardware and virtualization management: Manage all Oracle environments from one central console. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides management and automation for Oracle engineered systems, databases, middleware, and hardware.
Database management: Oracle’s Database management provides a full lifecycle solution for updates and configuration management, patching, provisioning, testing, performance management and automatic tuning.
Application performance management (APM): User and database monitoring with diagnostics and performance analysis that provide rich reporting on real user activities.
Enterprise monitoring: Built-in monitoring of all components of the IT infrastructure enables rapid problem diagnosis. Both Oracle and non-Oracle components are constantly monitored.
Oracle real user experience insight: Insights on real user experiences and preferences enable businesses and IT stakeholders to develop a shared understanding into their application users’ experience.
Non-Oracle management: Oracle Enterprise Manager manages non-Oracle components with a comprehensive set of plugins. The self-update mechanism allows customers to download, import, and deploy extensions built by Oracle, Oracle partners, and Oracle customers. These extensions enjoy the same level of stability as Oracle's own products.
Installation and upgrade: The upgrade process provides efficient, reliable, secure data migration with minimal downtime of your environment.

Reviews from Real Users

Oracle Enterprise Manager stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Several major ones are its central management and monitoring and its reporting capabilities

Robin C., head of Oracle Exadata Centre of Excellence at Tata Consultancy Services, writes, "The database performance monitoring features are very useful and allow us to quickly zero in on DB-related issues. Exadata storage server and Infiniband switches can be viewed from the GUI in OEM which cannot be done in other tools. The ability to deploy metric extensions makes this tool extensible for our custom monitoring also."

PeerSpot users note the effectiveness of these features. A database manager at a tech services company notes, “The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact that it is embedded with the Oracle database and Oracle's engineering system, its extra data, and analytics. They have plug-ins that are very helpful. Due to the infrastructure's size, the introduction they offer is very, very useful. It helps with an overall understanding of the product. They have a very nice graphical user interface. The monitoring is good. We can capture the SQL tune from us. With Oracle Enterprise Managers, we can see the rich performance tuning.”

Oracle

With Toad for Oracle, you'll reduce costs and risks by easily ensuring the health and performance of your Oracle Cloud Platform and on-premises databases. ... On the operations side, you can automate administration tasks and proactively manage your databases while embracing performance optimization and risk mitigation.

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