I’ve noticed that Oracle APEX rarely comes up in developer discussions, especially compared to modern frameworks and cloud native stacks.
But in enterprise environments, it seems to handle data heavy applications, internal tools, and workflows surprisingly well, especially when paired with a solid database setup.
From what I’ve seen, it reduces a lot of the overhead you would normally have with full stack development while still being scalable if designed properly.
Curious to hear from others. Are people actually using APEX in production, or is it still considered niche?
Yeah that makes sense. The vendor lock in and licensing side of Oracle is definitely a real concern, and the PL/SQL dependency can be limiting especially when it comes to hiring or long term flexibility.
But in my case, I’ve seen APEX work reasonably well mostly in setups where those trade offs are already accepted, like internal tools where everything is already built around Oracle and the focus is on working with large datasets efficiently.
I wouldn’t treat it as a general purpose stack but in those scenarios it felt more practical than building and maintaining a separate full stack system.