Eclipse Luna vs Oracle SQL Developer comparison

Eclipse Foundation and Oracle are both solutions in the IDE category. Eclipse Foundation is ranked #14, while Oracle is ranked #5. Eclipse Foundation holds a 1.5% mindshare in IDE, compared to Oracle’s 4.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Eclipse Foundation users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Eclipse Luna

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle SQL Developer

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Eclipse Luna and Oracle SQL Developer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two IDE solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Eclipse Luna vs. Oracle SQL Developer

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse Luna

Ranking in IDE

14th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle SQL Developer

Ranking in IDE

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the IDE category, the mindshare of Eclipse Luna is 1.5%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer is 4.2%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IDE Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle SQL Developer	4.2%
Eclipse Luna	1.5%
Other	94.3%

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RahulJain7

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.

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Sankhadeep Sengupta

Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy

Improved efficiency and access control enhance data management while room for improvement exists in query debugging and user interface

Oracle SQL Developer has disadvantages, such as the inability to execute or debug a query in a stored procedure, which is something we had in TOAD, a licensed tool with a richer feature set. So, we're dealing with the limitations of Oracle SQL Developer. Other than the debugging feature, I wish Oracle SQL Developer had better connectivity similar to TOAD, where we could simply input the DNS name without repeatedly entering passwords. Although there is a save option in Oracle SQL Developer, TOAD had a more developer-friendly interface, which I miss. The debugging functionality was much more convenient and smooth in TOAD compared to Oracle SQL Developer. I find Oracle SQL Developer less interactive and less developer-friendly, particularly when it comes to debugging, which was easier in TOAD.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."

"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"

"It allows us to implement a form of test driven development (TDD) for database-resident code."

"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."

"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."

"The newer version has a lot of new features. It generates output and scripts for your Ultrix. It can generate JSON, XML, etc."

"It's easy to deploy, I can copy it onto the system and run it without having to install it and this makes it a very good solution for quick use."

"I have a lot of flexibility with it."

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Cons

"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."

"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."

"The development of the product needs improvement."

"I would like it to support background processes better."

"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."

"There are occasional runtime issues that are easily worked around, especially on a Windows deployment."

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

"If they had something on the Web then you wouldn't need to install it, just query, like Enterprise Manager."

"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."

"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."

"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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's a free tool."

"It is basically free."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

25%

Insurance Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	15

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Overview

Eclipse Luna includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse workbench provides a new dark theme, split editors, line numbers on by default, reduced whitespace in default presentation, ability to hide the "quick access" bar and fitting syntax highlighter setting for the editor of several programming languages. Paho provides open source implementations of open and standard messaging protocols that support current and emerging requirements of M2M integration with Web and Enterprise middleware and applications. EcoreTools, the graphical modeler for Ecore, has been completely re-implemented based on Sirius and provides a nicer graphical design, support for documenting your model, specifying domain constraints and modeling Generic Types. It provides a standalone C/C++ debugger application that is added to the CDT to help debug an application via the command line and have an Eclipse UI debugger pop up.

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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.

For more information on Oracle SQL Developer, visit Oracle.com

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