GeneXus vs Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service comparison

GeneXus and Oracle are both solutions in the Low-Code Development Platforms category. GeneXus is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.5, while Oracle is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.5. GeneXus holds a 0.9% mindshare in LCDP, compared to Oracle’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GeneXus users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service and GeneXus are both low-code development platforms suitable for different user needs. Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service seems to have the upper hand in deployment simplicity and customer service responsiveness, while GeneXus stands out for its extensive functionality and long-term ROI.

Features: Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is known for strong integration capabilities, ease of use, and straightforward deployment. GeneXus is celebrated for robust automation features, support for multiple platforms, and a comprehensive feature set.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service could improve its debugging tools, scalability, and possibly reduce initial setup costs. GeneXus might benefit from a more intuitive development environment, enhanced customer support, and better customer service efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is praised for a straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service. GeneXus, while effective in deployment, receives mixed reviews concerning customer service efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service offers competitive pricing with a good ROI, despite potentially high initial setup costs. GeneXus features higher initial costs, but users commend its long-term ROI due to its extensive capabilities, making it seem more valuable over time.

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

20th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (10th)

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud...

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Low-Code Development Platforms category, the mindshare of GeneXus is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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XavierEspinoza

Internal System Coordinator at Red CEDIA

Offers a simplified architecture with outstanding integration capabilities

The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization. The metadata obtained within the logic of different systems is also vital. Due to the solution, our company team doesn't have to work with multiple languages and integrations can be made with C Sharp. JavaScript can also be used with GeneXus, the tool takes charge of all the rest and has a simple architecture. The solution can be used out of the box without facing any issues and nothing much needs to be done with frameworks. In our case we need to use Python with GeneXus, we use Ironpython to embed python code in C# .

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Sherif Bashar

Head of Digital Solutions at Wind Integrated Solutions

Offers low-code/no-code concept makes development much easier and faster and offers good community support as the development team actively answers questions on the community every day

There are very minor things, like the feature called "action chains," that could use a bit of enhancement. But the team is perfect; they're working on it. An action chain is a sequence of actions triggered by a button or an event. It executes code in order, from top to bottom. For example, it could call a code, call a REST service, and then insert data into a database. It needs enhancement because it can be a bit complex for fresh grads or new developers to understand. It would be better if it was made more readable. That's the main point. But if you have experience, you'll understand it easily. One more thing I want to add about Visual Builder: up until two years ago, it supported native mobile development. That's not available anymore. They replaced native mobile development with progressive web apps, and most customers are complaining about that. We need native mobile development back – the ability to put apps on stores like Google Play or the App Store. That feature is not available right now, and they deprecated it starting in 2024. It's very important. Otherwise, clients go with Flutter or other mobile development tools. It would be good for Oracle to regain that capability. We need the native mobile development feature back.

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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

"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."

"GeneXus evolves with technology."

"The integration capabilities of GeneXus are highly valuable for our organization"

"This solution works extremely quickly in terms of enabling an application in a production environment."

"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."

"I like the testing models, which allow me to create unit or interface tests of my programs. It helps us avoid missed deadlines because we can detect all the errors before deploying the new versions of the solution. And I also like the integration with coding managers like DevOps or Jenkins. It enables us to do versioning."

"The front-end features are the most valuable."

"The solution provides ease of programming and the speed of delivery of demands."

More GeneXus pros

"You don't need a dedicated IDE to develop. You can work from any browser, which is very convenient. And, with the cloud concept, your code is stored in the cloud, so you can modify it from anywhere, at any time."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable feature was the visual drag and drop on the components."

"VBS is another tool that allows users to create enterprise applications without needing to store their projects in traditional databases like SQL."

"The action chains are really helpful, and the trigger event, along with those action chains, has been very helpful."

"The tool is very easy to use."

Cons

"The graphical interface could be improved. I also notice some performance problems on hardware that should be more than adequate. GeneXus uses a lot of RAM and other computer resources."

"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."

"The front-end with GeneXus is not as good as the back-end."

"It's expensive for a company."

"It would be helpful to have additional assisted processing with training."

"Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus"

"I told them to add something about Angular. They're already working on adding it."

"GeneXus is a wonderful tool for the backend. It's the best in the world, but for the frontend, GeneXus needs to improve. There should be easier steps for managing various aspects, such as alerts and messages to show to the end-users."

More GeneXus cons

"There are some bugs in VBCS."

"The tool has minor bugs."

"The initial setup of Oracle VBCS can be challenging for those unfamiliar with DBS."

"I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing."

"The feature called "action chains" could use a bit of enhancement."

"There was an attempt to enable front-end development, it did what it intended to do, but the side effects were too bad."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive. I'd rate it a four out of ten in terms of pricing."

"The cost of a GeneXus license is extremely high. At the same time, one person using the solution can do the work of three Java or data developers. I think that's why they charge so much. It's too expensive, which is one reason it isn't widely used."

"I know that its licenses are generally per year, and in the past, the license for GeneXus was around $5,000, but I don't know what's the current price of the GeneXus license."

"I don't know about the price because I am an employee, but I hear it's cheaper than other tools."

"The tool's price is good."

"This solution offers multi-plan licenses, depending on the size of the company and the features required, as opposed to being priced per user/device."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten"

"People tend to work with GeneXus if it's cheap, but GeneXus does have licensing policies...Moreover, the cost of resourcing work in GeneXus may make it more expensive than other programming languages."

More GeneXus pricing and cost advice

"Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is much too expensive."

"It's not expensive when you consider what it provides: low-code/no-code development, faster development time, good quality, and good stability."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GeneXus?

GeneXus evolves with technology.

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What needs improvement with GeneXus?

GeneXus needs to be more consistent in functionality without any errors. Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus, but in some cases, it saves time as well. Some errors will take too lo...

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

Our company uses the latest version of GeneXus. The solution is used in our company to develop various enterprise systems, and GeneXus is used as an integrator, which further facilitates low-cost d...

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What do you like most about Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service?

The tool is very easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service?

I actually don't have much experience with pricing, so I can't comment on it right now.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service?

There was a requirement to build a custom form to raise AI invoices, using Oracle Fusion. We created a form, and another use case was that users wanted to create and update customers.

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Overview

What is GeneXus? GeneXus™ is the best Low-Code Platform that you don't know yet.

It's a Software Development Platform that simplifies and automates the tasks of creating and evolving enterprise applications and multi-channel user-experiences. Great Advantages:

- Higher productivity, with automatic maintenance & evolution
- Multi-Experience, we continuously create new code generators
- Agile, incremental approach, with fully functional prototypes
- Easier to learn, one single language to cover all technologies
- Future-proof, we've been around for 30 years, evolving for you

Key Differentiators against the competition:

- No runtime fees, we charge by developer
- Best theoretical framework, which allows us to evolve
- Best coverage in the market: Most technologies, most languages, most markets and industries
- We run on-premise or on the cloud
- Multiple starting points depending on the type of company you work in, with products for Students, Startups, ISVs, Corporate Development, and SAP technologies

GeneXus uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to create software, enabling truly incremental development of apps, providing a low-code, future-proof development platform for the leading execution platforms and languages, and the most popular DBMS.

GeneXus

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is a cloud-based software development Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure. It provides an open-source standards-based solution to develop, collaborate on, and deploy applications within Oracle Cloud.

Oracle

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