We performed a comparison between NetBeans and Oracle SQL Developer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JetBrains and others in IDE."When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier... For example, when working with Hibernate or with JPA, creating entities is very easy through a graphical interface."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"Server Support"
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"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 like it because it's very similar in output to SQL *Plus, and it has many convenience features that make it easier to read the data and use the basic reporting features it provides."
"Using execution plan, I am able to do lots of query tuning."
"I have a lot of flexibility with it."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"I would like there to be better integration with Git, as there are IDEs such as Eclipse that offer this integration in a much more elegant way than NetBeans."
"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."
"There are always rooms for improvement for any product. The good thing with NetBeans is that since it is Open Source, you can just go ahead and contribute whatever you want to change yourself."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"The competing products have more features."
"It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."
"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"There are occasional runtime issues that are easily worked around, especially on a Windows deployment."
"The initial setup is always a problem, it cannot find the Java SDK."
"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."
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NetBeans is ranked 6th in IDE while Oracle SQL Developer is ranked 4th in IDE with 30 reviews. NetBeans is rated 8.2, while Oracle SQL Developer is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NetBeans writes "No additional configuration is needed, just checkout projects from the VCS server and open it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SQL Developer writes "This product is delivered at no cost to us as Oracle users. We even have non-tech, functional users installing it on their own with only a little guidance from us". NetBeans is most compared with Replit, SonarLint, Codespaces and Codeium , whereas Oracle SQL Developer is most compared with Toad Data Modeler, SonarLint, Delphi, JetBrains IDEs and Eclipse Luna.
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