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Eclipse Luna vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse Luna
Ranking in IDE
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle SQL Developer
Ranking in IDE
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 4.9%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 7.3%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SQL Developer7.3%
Eclipse Luna4.9%
Other87.8%
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Featured Reviews

RahulJain7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"It works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."
"Eclipse is a neat IDE; it works as a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements, including development, debugging, unit testing, and an extensive list of plugins to extend functionality."
"Everybody should try it because you do not have to code things to create output from JSON or DDL."
"Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE that also provides a lot of tools for creating ad hoc reports and organizing your objects; those are the main use cases I would say."
"Helps us to test and to develop scripts for monitoring applications."
"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."
"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."
"It's free and very user-friendly."
"It’s a great tool for accessing and exploring Oracle Databases."
"It has done everything that I needed it to do, and it doesn't cost you anything."
 

Cons

"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."
"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."
"I would give the technical support a rating of zero."
"I would expect the team to fix any existing bugs related to performance and make it more stable for future releases."
"The development of the product needs improvement."
"Toad is much faster to use. It's not Java which takes a lot of time to query and create things."
"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."
"The GUI ‘navigator’ screen uses different icons for partitioned, indexed organised tables, temporary and of course conventional tables, but this is not the case with indexes in the viewer - they all look the same so you can’t tell if it is a bitmap index, a unique index, a partitioned index or what."
"The areas of Oracle SQL Developer that need improvement are in cloud."
"The initial setup is always a problem, it cannot find the Java SDK."
"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."
"It's not so stable. Sometimes it crashes, and the connection to the databases is bad."
"There are always areas of improvement as it relates to the tool's ability, the process that you need to go through in order to connect to some of the non-Oracle databases."
 

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

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
 

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Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise20
 

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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...
 

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