Highcharts | D3.js | Flot | |
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Website | http://www.highcharts.com/products/highcharts | http://d3js.org/ | http://www.flotcharts.org/ |
Demo web link | http://highcharts.com/demo/ | https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery | http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/ |
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Open source | Yes CC by-nc 3.0 | Yes BSD License | Yes MIT License |
Latest version | 1.0 | 2.10.3 | 0.7 (march 2011) |
Trial and Prices | Free for non commercial use $ 80 (single website) - $ 2000 (10 developers license) | Free under BSD | Free |
Library size (compressed+gzip) | 310 KB | ||
Minified size | 45 kb | 116 kb | |
Dependencies | https://github.com/shawnbot/aight for partial IE8 compatibility. No dependencies needed for other browsers supported | jQuery | |
Graphic technology | SVG | SVG | Canvas |
Charts types | |||
Area | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bar | Yes horizontal, vertical | Yes | Yes |
Bubble | Yes | Yes | Yes plugin |
Line | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Pie | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Scatter | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spline | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Sparklines | Yes | ||
Candlestick | Yes Highstock, separate product | - Unofficial example: https://gist.github.com/1074045 | Yes plugin: http://jumflot.jumware.com/candlestick.html |
Donut | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Node / Edge graph | Yes | ||
Other charts | D3.js is a drawing library, and not just a chart library. You can make virtually any visualization or graph given time. | Bubbles, Gantt, Pyramid, Spider | |
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Multitouch | |||
Ability to zoom in and out of charts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Annotations on the chart | No | Yes | |
Combination of charts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Data labels | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Date-time axis | Yes | Yes | |
Dynamic charts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Export files | Yes | No | |
External Data Loading | Yes | Yes | |
Interactive (responds to mouse hover/click) | Yes | No | Yes turned off by default |
Yes | No | ||
Text Rotation for Labels | Yes | Yes x-y coordinates(of text) needs to be changed after rotation of text | |
Platforms | |||
Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Internet Explorer | Yes 6.0+ | - IE 9 is supported, IE 8 is supported with Aight | Yes 6.0+ |
Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iPhone | Yes | Yes | |
iPad | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Source code repository | https://github.com/flot/flot | ||
http://twitter.com/Highcharts | |||
Website | http://www.highcharts.com/products/highcharts | http://d3js.org/ | http://www.flotcharts.org/ |