Nutanix Database Service vs Toad for Oracle comparison

Nutanix and Quest Software are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Nutanix is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.8, while Quest Software is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.3. Nutanix holds a 2.4% mindshare in DDM, compared to Quest Software’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Nutanix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

Nutanix Database Service

Read 31 Nutanix Database Service reviews

1,876 Views
1,876 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

Toad for Oracle

Read 17 Toad for Oracle reviews

1,222 Views
1,198 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Nutanix Database Service

Toad for Oracle

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Nutanix Database Service and Toad for Oracle compete in the database management category. Nutanix, with its automation and virtualization, has an edge in simplifying database operations, while Toad excels in user-friendly features and development tools tailored for Oracle.

Features: Nutanix Database Service offers advanced automation for database management, fast deployment, and robust analytics capabilities beneficial for Oracle workloads, along with comprehensive virtualization support. Toad for Oracle is strong in development with extensive debugging tools, seamless code navigation, and effective session management for Oracle databases.

Room for Improvement: Nutanix Database Service could improve its SQL compatibility, expand database and hypervisor integrations, and simplify its pricing model to address performance issues when scaling. Toad for Oracle needs to enhance execution speed for large queries, improve log file readability, and consider price reductions to remain competitive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Nutanix Database Service offers flexible deployment options across private, public, and hybrid clouds but experiences mixed reviews regarding customer support. Toad for Oracle primarily supports on-premises implementations with available public cloud integrations and less dependency on customer service due to its intuitive design.

Pricing and ROI: Nutanix Database Service is viewed as expensive with complex licensing, but its automation features potentially reduce administrative costs. Toad for Oracle also comes at a significant price, justified by its wide-ranging features, offering a structured licensing model seen as an investment in productivity and efficiency for Oracle developers.

To learn more, read our detailed Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle Report (Updated: December 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle

December 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 881,082 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Nutanix Database Service

Ranking in Database Development and Management

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Toad for Oracle

Ranking in Database Development and Management

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Nutanix Database Service is 2.4%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad for Oracle is 2.8%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Nutanix Database Service	2.4%
Toad for Oracle	2.8%
Other	94.8%

Database Development and Management

Featured Reviews

Jason Posner

Lead Systems Administrator at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Improves time management by reducing database provisioning time

The feature I appreciate the most in Nutanix Database Service is the Time Machine. The simplicity of the Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service and being able to have a point in time that you can go back to at whatever your retention period is, is really great and helpful for us. The Time Machine feature in Nutanix Database Service has definitely reduced turnaround time for when we need clones or other environments spun up off of our existing environment, such as for corruption. It has helped the workload significantly. We're a very small team of database administrators. It worked really effectively for them and helped the workflow much more than our previous solution. Using Nutanix Database Service has reduced the time it takes to provision a database by 75%. The efficiency gained by using Nutanix Database Service has led to a positive impact on our business as far as bringing in new applications and workloads. Being able to clone and spin up other environments off of what we already have in NDB eases turnaround time when requests come in, and we're able to fill them and get them back to the business and make them available to customers. We've been able to automate DBA tasks. It simplifies turnaround time. Our DBA can deploy on how own and no longer waits for requests to be fulfilled.

Read full review

Mark Stocks

Vice President, Director Enterprise Architecture at JE Dunn Construction

Uses trusted data to support financial forecasting and automate complex calculations through daily development workflows

The best features Toad for Oracle offers are the ability to access the database objects and see them in a very simplified manner. The simplified view helps me in my work as it makes troubleshooting easier. Toad for Oracle has positively impacted our organization because our financial forecasting data set is trusted throughout the company because of the ability for us to debug and analyze the data with Toad for Oracle. This trust in the data set has affected business decisions and efficiency by creating a completely separate data department because of the value that we saw with our data because of how we were able to organize and extract data from Oracle with Toad for Oracle.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It has some very good features. It really works with multiple silos in terms of infrastructure, database updates, and migration. So many things are easy with Era."

"What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is the standardization and ease of deployment. It makes it easier for the database administrators to deploy without either the database administrator or the business needing all their staff and waiting a long period of time to have their request fulfilled."

"The benefit I see from the product in terms of its solution is that flexibility regarding where the workload runs is probably the biggest advantage with Nutanix Database Service."

"AI has been deployed within Nutanix. It's very easy to provision the machine within minutes of the application orders. They can hand those over and work along with the AI team to get the data available quickly for business analysis."

"Management and provision are the most important features of Nutanix Database Service."

"It has wizards that are very helpful in the installation, and it handles automation as well as virtualization once deployed."

"What I appreciate the most about Nutanix Database Service is that it's simple; it's all in one bundle, and everything is pre-configured so that you can deploy your database and protect it."

"With Oracle, it took around one hour to refresh the database and now, with Nutanix, it takes a quarter of that time."

More Nutanix Database Service pros

"I like that it's very flexible and helpful in query accuracy, analysis, and data visualization. I also like the move facilities available in Toad for Oracle. Overall, I think it's a fantastic product for analyzing SQL queries and managing all kinds of queries."

"Simply the best GUI software for administration is the most valuable aspect for me."

"Oracle has advanced query optimization and tuning features that help improve the performance of SQL queries."

"The most valuable feature is the navigation within the UI, where you can right-click on an object in an SQL query and go right to it, versus going through all of the menus to find what you are looking for."

"The product's most valuable features are UI and monitoring."

"I haven't seen any issues with scalability. We have about 1000 people on our IT team who use the solution."

"Toad has a lot of features that are very useful, fast, and well developed."

"The best product for working with Oracle databases for support, checking and loading data."

More Toad for Oracle pros

Cons

"Era should be compatible with various environments, such as VMware and Red Hat, to be hypervisor agnostic."

"This solution could be improved by integrating with more database providers."

"The graphical user interfaces could be much more user-friendly. They are already user-friendly, but they could be simpler so that we do not need L3 staff to handle them. If they were simpler, we could also have some command center or L1/L1.5 associates do some housekeeping activities on it."

"The only improvement I would suggest is making the template creation and updating process more straightforward and automated."

"There have been instances where clients have been using databases that are not supported by Nutanix Database Service, though I cannot recall which ones at the moment."

"Nutanix Database Service can be improved by implementing more AI capabilities."

"Nutanix Database Service can be improved by enhancing logging; when we're trying to look for errors, one of the hiccups we always run into is that it's very hard to pinpoint and look through the logs."

"We are also overwhelmed with the quality of technical support associated with the product."

More Nutanix Database Service cons

"It would be beneficial if Toad for Oracle could incorporate OEM features, as having monitoring capabilities in the same interface would simplify workload and management tasks."

"The way the dialog boxes appear can be improved."

"I would like to see an improvement in the performance because opening the browser and the editor should be faster."

"There could be a tool for automated SQL query functioning."

"An area where the solution could use some improvement is in terms of user-friendliness. During the initial setup phase, the solution was not very intuitive when attempting to establish connections."

"I'd like reporting to be more available. If it was a feature that was already installed, more people would take advantage of it."

"In future releases, the product can be more intuitive. It has to be lighter than what it is because sometimes it is not responding quickly. If I do some features at the same time, it's not supporting. I have to wait sometimes to get the action. It's dependent on the resources of the workstation, but it has to be improved in this area. The faster processing is needed."

"Toad for Oracle could improve code completion, it is very slow."

More Toad for Oracle cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's priced fairly... It's a good value. When you go looking for something from Oracle that automates things and makes your life easier, it's always going to be a minimum of $500,000. Era's nothing like that."

"The licensed-based pricing is confusing and too high."

"This solution is reasonably priced."

"Era is quite expensive. The thing that will be a showstopper for them in the long run is if you look at it from a technical perspective on what it provides and weigh it up against consolidation of multiple other software suites."

"The tool is expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."

"Licensing costs will be the main scalability problem."

"Not everyone can afford it. It's a bit expensive, so the price has to be improved."

More Nutanix Database Service pricing and cost advice

"There are paid and free-for-use versions of the product."

"I would rate it six, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"My advice is to try to use the three-year maintenance agreement if possible."

"The pricing is okay, it's reasonable."

"The professional edition is about $1,000 AUD ($700 USD) and the developer version is about twice that much."

"In my opinion, this solution is a little expensive, but I understand that good programs cost more money."

"Toad for Oracle has a relatively high cost compared to other similar tools."

"The product's pricing is just right because if it were slightly higher, it would not have been as widely adopted as it currently is in our organization."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Database Development and Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

Transportation Company

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Database Service?

It is amazing. The pricing compared to the time saved is nothing. It's worth the cost.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Nutanix Database Service?

Nutanix Database Service can be improved by implementing more AI capabilities.

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Nutanix Database Service?

Clients use Nutanix Database Service for various reasons.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad for Oracle?

The licensing cost for Toad for Oracle is relatively high, with their license and DPA suite totaling around five thousand dollars.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Toad for Oracle?

Toad for Oracle can be improved by working with Microsoft Fabric.

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Toad for Oracle?

My main use case for Toad for Oracle is accessing data in Oracle and building PL/SQL database objects, packages, procedures, and functions. A quick specific example of how I use Toad for Oracle in ...

See all answers

Comparisons

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions vs Nutanix Database Service

Compared 31% of the time

Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials vs Nutanix Database Service

Compared 18% of the time

EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager vs Nutanix Database Service

Compared 14% of the time

Solix Enterprise Data Management vs Nutanix Database Service

Compared 13% of the time

Oracle Enterprise Manager vs Nutanix Database Service

Compared 12% of the time

More Nutanix Database Service Competitors

DbVisualizer vs Toad for Oracle

Compared 13% of the time

Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials vs Toad for Oracle

Compared 13% of the time

Toad Edge vs Toad for Oracle

Compared 12% of the time

Toad Data Modeler vs Toad for Oracle

Compared 11% of the time

Foglight for Databases vs Toad for Oracle

Compared 10% of the time

More Toad for Oracle Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Nutanix Database Service

January 2026

Download Nutanix Database Service product report

Buyer's Guide

Toad for Oracle

January 2026

Download Toad for Oracle product report

Also Known As

Nutanix Era

No data available

Overview

Nutanix Database Service (NDB) simplifies and automates database lifecycle management across on-premises and public clouds for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB databases.

Nutanix

With Toad for Oracle, you'll reduce costs and risks by easily ensuring the health and performance of your Oracle Cloud Platform and on-premises databases. ... On the operations side, you can automate administration tasks and proactively manage your databases while embracing performance optimization and risk mitigation.

Quest Software

Sample Customers

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

intel, ebay, uber, mars, microsoft

Buyer's Guide

Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle

December 2025

Free Report: Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle

Find out what your peers are saying about Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle and other solutions. Updated: December 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Nutanix Database Service vs. Toad for Oracle report.

See our list of best Database Development and Management vendors.

We monitor all Database Development and Management reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.