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Likelihood to Recommend
Navicat Premium
Navicat Premium is a very well-rounded tool with a reasonable licensing fee given its feature set. It is primarily suited for technical resources who must work with a variety of different database systems, but who may not be database or command line tool wizards. However, its query building and job batch scheduling feature support end-users as they build competency, and it continues to hold its value even as users outgrow their training wheels.Navicat is probably not so appropriate for DBAs and others for whom database development and management is already a career path; these folks have their preferred toolsets, both vendor-supplied and homegrown, and they might consider the additional licensing cost to outweigh the value they'd personally get out of Navicat.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
Toad for Oracle is very well suited for all Oracle implementations, be it single instance or RAC. It is best suited for use of Oracle DBA, Developer and Database Engineers.I don't recommend Toad for Oracle for Project Managers or Solution Architects. This can be a pricier choice for these people. They can do fine with free options like SQL Developer.
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
CGIInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Database Development
Navicat Premium
7.3
Toad for Oracle
7.8
Version control tools
Navicat Premium
7.0
Toad for Oracle
8.0
Test data generation
Navicat Premium
7.0
Toad for Oracle
7.3
Performance optimization tools
Navicat Premium
8.0
Toad for Oracle
8.1
Schema maintenance
Navicat Premium
7.8
Toad for Oracle
8.3
Database change management
Navicat Premium
6.4
Toad for Oracle
7.4
Database Administration
Navicat Premium
7.5
Toad for Oracle
8.1
User management
Navicat Premium
7.8
Toad for Oracle
7.9
Database security
Navicat Premium
7.8
Toad for Oracle
7.7
Database status reporting
Navicat Premium
7.0
Toad for Oracle
8.2
Change management
Navicat Premium
7.3
Toad for Oracle
8.4
Pros
Navicat Premium
- Access via standard html
- Alert notification
DBA
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
- Toad is a de-facto standard tool for data developers and analysts. Generally speaking it provides almost every function needed to manage data in EDW with great performance and stability.
- The nature of clinical data is big-sized: one table may have billions of rows. Toad provides critical functions to manage SQLs, e.g. Top SQL that can monitor and manage SQLs using CPU power and network bandwidth, so that EDW administrator can optimize ETL operations in the best efficiency.
- Many of our data analysts are not computer science backgrounded (having clinical / nursing background). Toad provides great auditing tools such as Tuning Lab or SQL Scanner, so that data analysts can train themselves with guidance of the tool.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Navicat Premium
- Navicat Premium's documentation can be hit-or-miss, as there are several versions available, and it's not always clear which documentation is current for the version at hand.
- Navicat Premium's query building interface is not as easy to use or feature-rich as standard IDE and text editor tools, and I've had some issues in the most recent release build with queries auto-running in the middle of making edits, causing a lack of responsiveness in the inbuilt editor -- however, Navicat offers users the ability to edit queries via an external editor, which mitigates these issues to some degree.
- In the data browser view, paged data navigation sometimes behaves unexpectedly or fails to work whatsoever, requiring a session restart to correct.
- The process of saving a data export file is cumbersome, requiring navigation through several windows, and I believe it could be significantly streamlined to improve user experience.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
- The date/time settings in Toad are kind of difficult to figure out. I have to use an ALTER SESSION command to format the dates so I can actually query date/time fields.
- It seems to be updated too often. I get notifications very frequently about new versions being available.
- The export function is difficult to use.
Senior Systems Analyst
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Navicat Premium
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Toad for Oracle
Toad for Oracle 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It is the preferred tool for our organization.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Services Company, 1-10 employeesUsability
Navicat Premium
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Toad for Oracle
Toad for Oracle 9.0
Based on 2 answers
I give is an 8 because nothing is a 10 and there is always room for improvement. I believe the user who is not as technologically inclined would be better suited with an easier way to identify the options for setting the layout up for Toad's GUI. To some it is very cumbersome and confusing.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Services Company, 1-10 employeesSupport Rating
Navicat Premium
Navicat Premium 7.0
Based on 2 answers
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.
DBA
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
Toad for Oracle 7.3
Based on 14 answers
I give the overall support for Toad for Oracle a 10/10. This is because whenever there has been an issue with this software, our team has got an immediate response. The same can not be said for similar software. The most recent example of this is when we needed to renew our licenses. Some employees were unable to log in to code with the given license key. Support was able to resolve the issue quickly.
Programmer Analyst
Department of Industrial RelationsGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Navicat Premium
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.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
Toad is much better than Tableau query writer. Tableau is not intuitive and requires knowledge of proprietary database language to fully implement. Tableau does not perform as quickly and accurately as Toad. Toad is very easy and slim to install. Additional hardware is often required to run Tableau smoothly. Support for Tableau is even more expensive than Toad support.
DBA
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Navicat Premium
- Similar features to OEM provided very easy to use, out-of-the-box functionality.
- No large infrastructure changes were needed to deploy and install.
DBA
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Toad for Oracle
- Quick and easy query development helps reduce man-hours in a project which converts to real dollars.
- Query analysis and tuning result in low database overhead and low latency, thus translating into real dollars because a system can thus handle more requests from customers.
- Ease of use makes it easy to deploy greenhorns in projects with minimal training, thus helping save money. Otherwise menial and simple jobs would have required experienced DBAs.
Associate
CognizantEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Navicat Premium
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Navicat Premium Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Toad for Oracle
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Toad for Oracle Editions & Modules
Edition
Baes | $530.00 |
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Pro | $835.00 |
Xpert | $1,273.00 |