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Eclipse Luna vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Eclipse Luna
Ranking in IDE
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle SQL Developer
Ranking in IDE
3rd
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 May 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 4.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 6.4%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SQL Developer6.4%
Eclipse Luna4.0%
Other89.6%
IDE
 

Featured Reviews

RahulJain7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Infoobects Pvt. Ltd.
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 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."
"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"I use the product, and the many aspects of it, because it covers everything from querying a database to monitoring to making a conceptual model to getting the model from the database and producing diagrams."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"License is free, setup is simple and scriptable."
"We used to use SQL *Plus, but we needed something with more of a GUI for users who are not technical users."
"Helps us to test and to develop scripts for monitoring applications."
 

Cons

"The development of the product needs improvement."
"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."
"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."
"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."
"I would like to see it support NoSQL database."
"While working with Data Pump, I have faced a few problems."
"If you're trying to return exceedingly large data sets into the tool for some reason to download, that could be a challenge, depending on the memory on your machine and the disk space you have to output it to."
"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."
"The competing products have more features."
"I occasionally have some difficulties with the import of data from other sources, so it sometimes aborts or is not very stable in those areas that still could be improved with Oracle SQL Developer."
"Versioning is there, check. But it sucks a lot, double check."
"I would like it to support background processes better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is basically free."
"It's a free tool."
"It's a no-cost license and it offers outstanding functionality on that basis."
"It has the advantage that it's free. The next best competitor would cost several thousand dollars."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
20%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

Company Size

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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
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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