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Oracle SQL Developer vs Toad Data Modeler comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle SQL Developer
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
IDE (2nd)
Toad Data Modeler
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Oracle SQL Developer and Toad Data Modeler aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Oracle SQL Developer is designed for IDE and holds a mindshare of 7.2%, up 4.1% compared to last year.
Toad Data Modeler, on the other hand, focuses on Database Development and Management, holds 3.1% mindshare, down 3.4% since last year.
IDE Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle SQL Developer7.2%
Codespaces8.0%
JetBrains IDEs7.1%
Other77.7%
IDE
Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Toad Data Modeler3.1%
Oracle Enterprise Manager4.3%
Oracle Coherence3.8%
Other88.8%
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

AM
Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Has consistently supported long-term projects with reliable performance and team collaboration
With Oracle products, I have extensive experience, particularly with the database. I am familiar with DB2, which is IBM, and also I'm familiar with Postgres and other database products. I am using Exadata, which is a hardware and software platform. That's the back-end hardware platform. I'm basically using PL/SQL, which is the main product that I'm using all the time. I am using Oracle SQL Developer very extensively. With version control, you're basically working on multiple products, and the integration is good for sharing code, and it provides good facilities for team collaboration. I am not using the automated SQL tuning features, but I have extensively used the explain plan tool which is available in Oracle SQL Developer for performance enhancement. Oracle SQL Developer is a wonderful tool for ad hoc reports. You can quickly develop underlying code, run it, and create a report that you can format as well, outputting in Excel or any other format, in text or CSV format, which you can push to other tools for further processing or transmit it. We are end users, not partners or resellers with the product. I rate Oracle SQL Developer a 9 out of 10.
KQ
Senior engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
Creates intuitive diagrams with comprehensive control over relationships
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that you don't want to delete each one. 2) If one could view the same model on physical, logical, and conceptual levels while retaining all information specific to each level (including layout), that would be excellent.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"SQL Developer has reached a maturity level where it offers pretty much the same essential functionality (and much more) that you can find in other solutions, with the benefit of being free."
"Ability to analyze performance, using Explain Plan statement."
"It’s a great tool for accessing and exploring Oracle Databases."
"Everybody should try it because you do not have to code things to create output from JSON or DDL."
"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."
"The main benefits of using Oracle SQL Developer include maintaining different connections with environments such as development, quality, and production while ensuring good access control to prevent data mishaps."
"I have a lot of flexibility with it."
"Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE that also provides a lot of tools for creating ad hoc reports and organizing your objects; those are the main use cases I would say."
"With Toad, all the users have the same database on the server rather than local individual databases which creates a lot of duplication."
"The feature I really like is the graphical part, especially the control of the relationships, because you can move them around any way you want, which makes it easy to create a comprehensive and easy-to-understand diagram."
"I don't know the financials, but I wouldn’t be able to do my job (build applications/databases) without it."
"Toad is 100% value for money product."
"Horizontal layout for each connected database connection makes it easy to work with multiple databases at the same time."
"The most valuable features are the database architecture, the good functionality, and the user interface."
"Auto-complete is the best feature of the solution."
"I have used it for over six years."
 

Cons

"I find Oracle SQL Developer less interactive and less developer-friendly, particularly when it comes to debugging, which was easier in TOAD."
"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"Versioning is there, check. But it sucks a lot, double check."
"I would like it to support background processes better."
"I would like to see it support NoSQL database."
"Could be made to load faster."
"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."
"My only complaint over the years has been memory usage, which seems to improve with each release."
"It's way overpriced, even if it wasn't the buggy product it has become."
"It is not feasible for small businesses. It is not used in a small company."
"We sometimes have issues with multiple nested queries. They take a long time to run, and it would be nice to have them run faster."
"There were issues due to the databases connectivity."
"Better documentation would be a benefit."
"Many users don't know how to add licensing to Toad, or where it is shown, so they could make that easier."
"Although a lot of people get deceived by the name “Data Analysis”, it has capacity of any enterprise tool, but not to the point of creating multiple pipes in one integrated work-flow, batching the work-flows and running them parallel for data loads."
"The product should provide better debugging features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is basically free."
"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."
"Though I'm not involved in the licensing for Toad Data Modeler, I believe it's per user and not cheap."
"Price-wise, the lesser it is, the better it is for me, especially in Egypt. I think that the licensing cost ranges from 1,000 to 9,000. Also, it includes maintenance and support for a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Modeler?
Considering its functionality, I would rate its pricing as a seven out of ten. It could be cheaper yet is still pretty good.
What needs improvement with Toad Data Modeler?
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that y...
What is your primary use case for Toad Data Modeler?
There are two main use cases. One is reengineering an existing model and making changes from a database. The other is making a new model from scratch. These use cases involve all kinds of systems, ...
 

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