Navicat vs. Oracle SQL Developer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Navicat
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Navicat Premium is a multi-connection database development and administration tool which can simultaneously connect 7 databases (MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite) from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, MongoDB Atlas and Huawei Cloud, developerws can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain databases.N/A
Oracle SQL Developer
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Oracle SQL Developer is an integrated development environment (IDE) which provides editors for working with SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Java Procedures, and XML in Oracle databases.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NavicatOracle SQL Developer
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Navicat
8.2
Ratings
4% below category average
Oracle SQL Developer
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Ratings
Version control tools7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
Navicat
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
Oracle SQL Developer
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User management9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Database status reporting7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
NavicatOracle SQL Developer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
8.0
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8.9
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Support Rating
7.0
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.2
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User Testimonials
NavicatOracle SQL Developer
Likelihood to Recommend
I was tasked with migrating data from our local PostgreSQL DB to an Amazon RDS instance. I expected this to be a difficult job, but Navicat's migration wizard made it fairly straightforward. I think that it's more geared towards professional users, although not necessarily database practitioners. Non pros might do better with the new Navicat Lite edition.
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[Oracle SQL Developer is] best suited if your company works with different databases and needs a common SQL editor to manage and query data for its user. Oracle SQL Developer works very well with Oracle but also some other relational databases. If you do lot of querying and import/export in database, then this is tool for you. It's ideal for DBAs as well for data modeling, management, session monitoring, logging, versioning, etc. It’s not ideal for no relational/noSQL or big data. It is not tool for visualization. It’s best suited for querying using SQL. Companies that are looking for free tools that are robust and most useful should definitely look at it.
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Pros
  • Easy to understand
  • Simple UI/UX
  • Easy to connect data
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  • Export SQL results to a spreadsheet. After a query is run, you are able to export the results to a spreadsheet
  • Easily preview data columns on an Oracle table or view and the metadata on those columns.
  • SQL Editor is color-coded so that you can tell easily what are keywords.
  • You can set up SQL code templates to be able to use shortcut keys to format your SQL query easily in a readable format that you prefer.
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Cons
  • Filter table
  • Save to external file
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  • Setup can be challenging if your schemas aren't well formed or managed. Also, the ability to model/develop extensions for an existing database solution will depend on how robust the DBA provisioned roles and designed the respective schemas.
  • Detailed analysis of models can be clunky for complex relational models.
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Likelihood to Renew
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It allows most users to perform daily activities in a simple way, with no cost since the tool is free.
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Usability
There is quite a lot to learn because Navicat Premium is a very comprehensive database management and development tool, but it's User Interface is intuitive enough to pick up fairly quickly. I have also referred to the documentation on occasion, and can attest that it is quite good. I feel that it works best on a large monitor, but that's fairly common for this sort of software.
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Oracle SQL Developer is very easy to use and there are a wide range of courses available which can help you get started just within a day. Data can be exported in multiple formats based on user requirements. Organizational data can be stored and management effectively using Oracle SQL Developer. All the data, tables, sequences, indexes can be easily created and updated in Oracle SQL Developer.
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Support Rating
Very robust online community and well as excellent support staff. Easy to follow video tutorials. Detailed sample configurations are provided with guided walk-throughs via remote classroom instruction. Very fast response from support staff. No internal hires were necessary for support as vendor support staff fully met all technical expertise. 24/7 incident reporting and tracking is great.
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Large user community support
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Implementation Rating
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Just download and uncompress!
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Alternatives Considered
While Sequel Pro is a great shareware tool, it's limited to MySQL databases; while our department does use MySQL databases, we also use Oracle databases, so Navicat Premium's multi-product support is an absolute requirement. Navicat Premium also provides data browser support, including filtering, to empower less technically-minded users to query and manipulate databases, an option not available in Sequel Pro. And the job scheduling and batching features of Navicat Premium further distinguish it above the admirable, if limited, Sequel Pro.
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Oracle SQL Developer is available on multiple platforms, Windows Mac Linux and it's free. SQL Developer is best suited for a big cross functional globally based team. SQL Developer is less resource intensive, compared to other IDEs. SQL Developer has the capability to manage and develop Oracle Database in both on premise and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer can also connect and interact with non oracle database like MS SQL server and MySQL etc.
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Return on Investment
  • Similar features to OEM provided very easy to use, out-of-the-box functionality.
  • No large infrastructure changes were needed to deploy and install.
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  • No impact on the organization's budget as Oracle SQL Developer is free.
  • With the increased productivity of our database administrators, they are able to better assist the software developers in prototyping future products.
  • Through Oracle SQL Developer, our administrators were able to normalize many of our databases, reducing the amount of redundancy, and hence increasing the performance of our main application.
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