We performed a comparison between Devart dbForge Studio for SQL Server and NetBeans based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JetBrains and others in IDE."I like the ease of use and quick data usage."
"It's quite easy to install and use from a local machine or laptop, as well as on a server."
"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."
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
"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."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"Server Support"
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"The lock files and login are two features we've had issues with. As far as I can see, there's no way to switch off the login in SQL Servers. If there could be a way to switch off the login, for transactions, or in operations, or tables, that'd be great."
"The only issue that I have is that it depends on hardware resources, it takes a lot, that is the only set back with the solution."
"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."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"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."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
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Devart dbForge Studio for SQL Server is ranked 9th in IDE while NetBeans is ranked 6th in IDE. Devart dbForge Studio for SQL Server is rated 9.0, while NetBeans is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Devart dbForge Studio for SQL Server writes "A stable, scalable solution with excellent administration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetBeans writes "No additional configuration is needed, just checkout projects from the VCS server and open it". Devart dbForge Studio for SQL Server is most compared with dbForge Studio for MySQL and Oracle SQL Developer, whereas NetBeans is most compared with Replit, SonarLint, Codespaces, Oracle SQL Developer and Codeium .
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