Oracle SQL Developer Reviews

Name: Oracle SQL Developer
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (30 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

30 reviews
92% willing to recommend

275 followers

What is Oracle SQL Developer?

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.

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Oracle SQL Developer is the #6 ranked solution in top IDE solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle SQL Developer an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle SQL Developer is most commonly compared to Codeium: Oracle SQL Developer vs Codeium. Oracle SQL Developer is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured Oracle SQL Developer reviews

Theodoros Loizou

Software engineer at Amdocs

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.

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Martin Klier

Senior Database Consultant at Performing Databases

It makes life easier because I don't need to install something onsite when I am with a customer. And, since it's free, it helps me to unify and streamline my approach over multiple projects so I don't have to have a different approach for different customers. The new version 18 is really helpful, with a more flexible GUI and more reliable connectors.

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it_user657591

Senior Partner at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

Developer is centered on Oracle. I have the need now to monitor a much larger diversity of things. We are talking about monitoring cloud infrastructure where you have machines, where you have many other things, apart from the development. Also, SQL Developer is backed by Oracle, it's free, and it accomplishes what we need to be done. My most important criteria when selecting a vendor are, first, the vendor's reputation, and then the feedback I see from other users.

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Oracle SQL Developer mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer in the IDE category stands at 4.2%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on Oracle SQL Developer reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	IDE	Jun 15, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jun 15, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle SQL Developer vs Codespaces	Jun 15, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle SQL Developer vs JetBrains IDEs	Jun 15, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Codeium	0.0	11.5%	0%	0 interviews Add to research
AWS Cloud9	0.0	17.6%	0%	0 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"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."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."

Room for Improvement

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

Pricing

"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."

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