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Oracle SQL Developer vs Toad Data Modeler 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

Oracle SQL Developer
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
IDE (3rd)
Toad Data Modeler
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Oracle SQL Developer and Toad Data Modeler aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Oracle SQL Developer is designed for IDE and holds a mindshare of 6.4%, up 4.0% compared to last year.
Toad Data Modeler, on the other hand, focuses on Database Development and Management, holds 3.1% mindshare, down 3.9% since last year.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SQL Developer6.4%
Codespaces8.9%
JetBrains IDEs7.9%
Other76.8%
IDE
Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Toad Data Modeler3.1%
Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials4.2%
Oracle Enterprise Manager4.0%
Other88.7%
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
KQ
Senior engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
Creates intuitive diagrams with comprehensive control over relationships
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that you don't want to delete each one. 2) If one could view the same model on physical, logical, and conceptual levels while retaining all information specific to each level (including layout), that would be excellent.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"IT staff supporting the SIS could not do our jobs without SQL Developer."
"Customer Service: Good. Technical Support: Good."
"As a database trainer, I would like to say that although SQL developer is an open-source software, yet it provides a lot of features that you can find only in paid versions of its counterparts."
"We used to use SQL *Plus, but we needed something with more of a GUI for users who are not technical users."
"Oracle SQL Developer is scalable; it can perform the same when more people use it, and most of the people in my organization are using it, with approximately 100 people in the organization."
"Technical support is great; they are extremely responsive and helpful with issues and questions."
"Everybody should try it because you do not have to code things to create output from JSON or DDL."
"It's an independent platform, you can use it anywhere, it's good, scalable and a lot of times it works as-is, with very few calls to support."
"Horizontal layout for each connected database connection makes it easy to work with multiple databases at the same time."
"Auto-complete is the best feature of the solution."
"I found all features valuable and necessary in Toad Data Modeler, particularly how good the solution is for modeling, database schema generation, and database re-engineering."
"I found all features valuable and necessary in Toad Data Modeler, particularly how good the solution is for modeling, database schema generation, and database re-engineering. I also found Toad Data Modeler straightforward to use."
"It is a very good option for creating and editing SQL scripts, especially large ones that I have run in support of government billing applications."
"It's a must-buy, and both pricing and licensing is well in the range of every organization."
"The feature I really like is the graphical part, especially the control of the relationships."
"Toad allowed us to run the query on the cloud DB and return data from the query, making things much faster."
 

Cons

"I would say the layout should be improved. I've also have used PL/SQL Developer, and I like the layout, the landscape, of that application better than SQL Dev."
"It's more stable sometimes and less stable other times. I have used it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's variable, it's not the same stability. I think that can be improved on."
"If they had something on the Web then you wouldn't need to install it, just query, like Enterprise Manager."
"As our company keeps on growing, our data also keeps on growing. Currently, we are a $12-billion company and this tool supports us; our projection in the future is to grow from $12 billion to $20 billion in the next three years and I am not sure whether it might help then or not, as our data will also grow consequently."
"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."
"Although the GUI is nice, it could still use improvement, a better user interface."
"SQL Developer only shows a snapshot of the execution statistics and performance metrics at the moment you request the report."
"The product should provide better debugging features."
"Many users don't know how to add licensing to Toad, or where it is shown, so they could make that easier."
"Although a lot of people get deceived by the name “Data Analysis”, it has capacity of any enterprise tool, but not to the point of creating multiple pipes in one integrated work-flow, batching the work-flows and running them parallel for data loads."
"Sometimes, Toad crashes without a clue as to why, and it needs an immediate restart."
"When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest, which is cumbersome."
"Better documentation would be a benefit."
"Many users don't know how to add licensing to Toad, or where it is shown, so they could make that easier."
"It's quite stable but takes a bit of a time to run SQL queries if the database is huge."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a free tool."
"It is basically free."
"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."
"Though I'm not involved in the licensing for Toad Data Modeler, I believe it's per user and not cheap."
"Price-wise, the lesser it is, the better it is for me, especially in Egypt. I think that the licensing cost ranges from 1,000 to 9,000. Also, it includes maintenance and support for a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Modeler?
Considering its functionality, I would rate its pricing as a seven out of ten. It could be cheaper yet is still pretty good.
What needs improvement with Toad Data Modeler?
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that y...
What is your primary use case for Toad Data Modeler?
There are two main use cases. One is reengineering an existing model and making changes from a database. The other is making a new model from scratch. These use cases involve all kinds of systems, ...
 

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