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Eclipse Luna vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

 

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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 June 2026, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 4.0%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 6.4%, up from 4.2% 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%
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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 is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"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 works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."
"I assess the benefits of Oracle SQL Developer's reporting framework for data-driven decision making by stating that Oracle is the most efficient database for relational databases in my opinion."
"Since Oracle SQL Developer is free, we no longer incurred the cost of the previous tool."
"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"Oracle is tremendous, and I have always said to everybody, without knowing other databases, that Oracle is the best database that can exist in this world."
"The solution I've created is revenue forecasting and our organization goes to Wall Street with the earnings call, with the forecast."
"Technical support is great; they are extremely responsive and helpful with issues and questions."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."
 

Cons

"I would give the technical support a rating of zero."
"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 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."
"But after many years, when I tried to use it again, against the more advanced Oracle Database, it did not work."
"The stability depends on what version you're using. There are more successful versions and are less successful versions. For example, 17.3 is less successful. There were many bugs. Now, we are trying to pull all the developers to upgrade to 17.4."
"My only complaint over the years has been memory usage, which seems to improve with each release."
"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."
"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."
"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 crashes compared to other tools such as DBeaver or Microsoft SQL Server."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"It is basically free."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
21%
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Healthcare Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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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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