Compare libraries to simplify data visualisation: amCharts vs arcadiaCharts vs AwesomeChartJS vs CanvasJS Charts vs canvasxpress vs D3.js vs dhtmlxChart vs Dojo vs Dygraphs vs Ejschart vs Elycharts vs Flotvs FusionCharts...
Link | FusionCharts | Flot | jqPlot | Morris.js | ZingChart | flotr2 | Elycharts | nvd3 | Dracula Graph Library | MilkChart | jsPlumb | Dygraphs | gRaphaël | canvasxpress | JSXGraph | dhtmlxChart | CanvasJS Charts | AwesomeChartJS | Dojo (dojox/charting) | D3.js | Highcharts | Protovis | JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit | Rickshaw | Shield UI Charts | arcadiaCharts | Wijmo | RGraph | amCharts | KendoUI DataViz | jqChart | Google Chart Tools | Ejschart | TeeChart | Sencha Touch Charts | JSCharts | yFiles for HTML | JSCharting |
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| Open source | No | Yes MIT License | Yes MIT, GPL v2 | Yes Simplified BSD | No | Yes MIT License | Yes MIT License | Yes Apache 2.0 | Yes MIT License | Yes MIT License | Yes MIT, GPL v2 | Yes MIT license | Yes MIT License | Yes LGPL3 | Yes LGPL | Yes GNU GPL | Yes CC nc 3.0 | Yes Apache License v2.0 | Yes BSD, AFLv2 | Yes BSD License | Yes CC by-nc 3.0 | Yes BSD License | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes Open Source (GPL) + commercial | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Trial and Prices | 999 | Free | Free | Free | Full library free to use with small link. Licenses start at $199. SaaS and OEM available. | Free | Free | Free depending on Apache 2.0 | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free (you can donate) | Free | Free | Free under GNU GPL, $49 | 999 - Saas | Free depending on Apache 2.0 | Free | Free under BSD | Free for non commercial use and testing $ 90 (single website) - $ 3600 (10 developers license with maintenance and support for 12 months) | Free | Free (you can donate) | Free of charge with copyright attribution | Free for Non-commercial use. Requires license for commercial. OEM licensing available. | Must link back to site. No license available | Free for non commercial use. $100 / $250 / $1000 | Free (GPL) and commercial | 1400 - Saas | $ 399 | $299 | Free | $1000 | Free - MIT license | Free under GPLv3 license; $999 commercial license | $ 39 - $ 149 Free with watermark | Free trial with watermark. Requires license for commercial use. Royalty free Licenses. | Free with small link. Paid licenses for non-branded usage. |
| Dependencies | None | jQuery Comes with unicorn, capable and robust, simple | jQuery Looks as good as Flot (somewhat better), not much support, pluggable but no plugins. Too young. | jQuery, Raphaël Not exactly sexy. Needs Rapheal and annotations. No data labels, exporting and missing several chart types | None | underscore.js, beam.js No donut chart. Buzzzz. But seems very capable. | jQuery,Raphaël Charts seem kind of dinky. REasonable alternative. | d3.js and Aight for IE8 support - VERY cool but based on D3, no IE8 and prior. | Raphaël | jQuery or MooTools or YUI3 | Raphaël | None | None outside of the Dojo Toolkit - VERY nice but heavy for our needs | github.com/... for partial IE8 compatibility. No dependencies needed for other browsers supported | None | d3.js | jQuery | none | None | jQuery 1.9+ | None | None | none | |||||||||||||||
| Graphic technology | SVG / VML | Canvas | Canvas | SVG | HTML5 Canvas / SVG / VML | Canvas | SVG | SVG | SVG | Canvas | Canvas / SVG / VML | Canvas | SVG | Canvas | SVG | Canvas | HTML5 Canvas | Canvas | SVG, Canvas if not available VML or Silverlight | SVG | HTML5 Canvas / SVG / VML | SVG | Canvas | SVG | SVG, VML | Canvas | SVG | Canvas and SVG | SVG or VML for old IE | SVG | Canvas | SVG | Canvas / SVG / VML | Canvas | Canvas | Canvas | SVG+CSS, Canvas, HTML | SVG |
| Bar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes vertical only | Yes | Yes | Yes vertical only | Yes | Yes custom plotter | Yes (8 Kb) vertical only | Yes | Yes | Yes bar and xbar | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes horizontal, vertical | Yes | Yes | Yes vertical only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes vertical only | No | Yes | |||||
| Pie | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes (4 Kb) | Yes | Yes | Yes pie, pie 3d, and donut | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |||||
| Donut | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 7+ | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 6.0+ | - IE 9, IE8 requires Aight | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 9.0+ | Yes 6.0+ | - 9.0+ / OR / ie6+ ExplorerCanvas or FlashCanvas | Yes 6.0+ | Yes | Yes IE8+ | Yes 6+ | - IE 9 is supported, IE 8 is supported with Aight | Yes 6.0+ | No Partial | Yes 7.0+ | - IE 9, IE8 requires Aight | Yes 5.0+ | Yes | Yes 6.0+ | Yes | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 7+ | Yes 6.0+ | Yes | Yes 6.0+ | Yes 9.0+ | Yes 8.0+ | Yes IE9+ | Yes IE9+ | ||||
| Annotations on the chart | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes Indexlabels | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes new Annotation charts available in 2015 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Interactive charts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes mouse & touch (mobile) interaction | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Clickable points | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Website | fusioncharts.com | flotcharts.org | jqplot.com | github.io/... | zingchart.com | humblesoftware.com/... | elycharts.com | github.com/... | graphdracula.net | mootools.net/... | jsplumbtoolkit.com | dygraphs.com | raphaeljs.com | canvasxpress.org | uni-bayreuth.de/wp/ | dhtmlx.com/... | canvasjs.com | github.com/... | dojotoolkit.org/... | d3js.org | highcharts.com/... | github.io/... | thejit.org | shutterstock.com/... | shieldui.com | wijmo.com | rgraph.net | amcharts.com | telerik.com/... | jqchart.com | google.com/... | ejschart.com | github.com/... | sencha.com/... | jscharts.com | yworks.com/... | jscharting.com | |
| Demo web link | fusioncharts.com/... | flotcharts.org/... | jqplot.com/... | github.io/... | zingchart.com/... | humblesoftware.com/... | elycharts.com/... | brettdixon.com/... | jsplumbtoolkit.com/... | dygraphs.com/... | raphaeljs.com | uni-bayreuth.de/... | dhtmlx.com/... | canvasjs.com/... | dojotoolkit.org/... | github.com/... | highcharts.com/... | github.io/... | github.com/... | shutterstock.com/... | shieldui.com | rgraph.net/... | amcharts.com/... | kendoui.com/... | jqchart.com/... | google.com/... | ejschart.com/... | steema.com/... | sencha.com/... | jscharts.com/... | yworks.com/... | jscharting.com/... | ||||||
| Latest version | 3.4 | 0.8.1 (may 2013) | 1.0.0b2_r1012 | 0.4.1 | 2.5.1 (2016) | 2.1.4-Snapshot (Aug, 2011) | 0.0.3 | 1.5.8 | 1.3.16 | 0.5.0 | 0.99 | 8.0.2 | 3.7.10 | If you are interested in a far more advanced, interactive JavaScript plotting library, take a look at Flot. | 1.10 | 2.10.3 | 1.0 | 3.3.1 | 2.0.1 | 2012 | 1.7.1 | 1.0.2 | 6.17 (March 2024) | 3.X | Q1 2013 | 2.3 | 2018 | 3.0 | 1.3.0.4 | 2.8 | ||||||||
| Library size (compressed+gzip) | 553 KB | 238 KB | 1.1 MB | 52 KB | 223 KB | 32 kb | 50 KB | 88.5 KB | 35 KB | 27 KB | 500 KB (can easily be scaled down if you just use a subset of chart types) | 32 KB | 3.11 Mb | 24 KB (only through google link, no offline mode) | 1.5 MB | 373 KB | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minified size | 553 KB | 95 KB | 161 KB | 29 KB | 96 KB | 65 KB | 153 KB | 110 KB | 28.5 KB | 519.2 KB | 54 KB | 170 KB (can easily be scaled down if you just use a subset of chart types) | 116 kb | 45 kb | 4.7 MB | 159 KB | 200 K | 374 k | 190 KB | 6.5 MB | 373 KB | |||||||||||||||||
| Area | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Line charts can also have fills | Yes | Yes | Yes Line charts can also have fills | Yes Line charts can also have fills | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||
| Areaspline | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - In progress for next revision | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
| Dot | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | - custom plotter | Yes (2.5 Kb) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |||||||||
| Line | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (4 Kb) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |||||
| Scatter | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||||
| Spline | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes only line, not area | Yes spline and spline area | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes by default | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | - In progress for next revision | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |||||
| Sparklines | Yes | Yes based on the line chart | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | - In progress for next revision | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Candlestick | Yes | Yes plugin: http://jumflot.jumware.com/candlestick.html | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes custom plotter | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | - Unofficial example: https://gist.github.com/1074045 | Yes Highstock, separate product | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | |||||||
| Node / Edge graph | Yes | No | - In development | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other charts | Column, Funnel, Pyramid, Waterfall, Marimekko, Gauges, Gantt Charts, Heat Map, Radar, Box and Whisker, Kagi, Step Line | Bubbles, Gantt, Pyramid, Spider | Bullet, Chord, Funnel, Gauge, Grid, Maps, Pareto, Piano/Heatmap, Radar/Polar, Rankflow, Stock/OHLC, Treemap, Venn, WordCloud, Box plot, Population Pyramid, Waterfall, Calendar, Bubble Pie | Bubble, radar | Funnel | Bullet chart | Venn diagram, Genome Browser, Heatmap, Correlation plot, Network and pathway | Math... | calendar heatmap, treemap, radar | Spline, Step Line, OHLC, Scatter, Funnel, Pyramid, Step Area, Stacked Area, Stacked Area 100%, Range Area, Range Spline Area, Stacked Column, Stacked Column 100%, Range Column, Stacked Bar, Stacked Bar 100%, Range Bar | Bubble, Candlestick (OHLC), Spider. Other Dojo modules provide as well TreeMap, Gauges etc... | D3.js is a drawing library, and not just a chart library. You can make virtually any visualization or graph given time. | TreeMap, Node links | TreeMap, SpaceTree, RGraph, HyperTree, RGraph, Icicle, Sunburst, ForceDirected | Range Bar/Area/SplineArea, Polar Bar/Area/Spline/Scatter, Stepline, Steparea | Bipolar, Bar, Donut, Fuel, Funnel, Gantt, Gauge, Horizontal Bar, Horizontal Progress bar, Line, Marimekko, Meter, Pie, Radar, Rose, Scatter, Thermometer, VerticalLine chart, Vertical Progress bar, Waterfall, XY Plots, everything AJAX dynamic, Google Sheets support | Gauges, Radar, Polar, Step line, Step without Risers, OHLC, area range, Donut, Funnel, Waterfall, Bullet, XY, Maps are available as additional package | Linear Gauge, Radial Gauge, Bubble, Bullet, Donut, Scatter, Stock | Bubble, radar, polar | Geo chart, table, gauge, tree map | f(x), Gauge, Donut, alarm, candle stick, step series, over under, open high low, error series, stacked bar, trend, and floating bar | Horizbar, SmoothLine, Donut, HorizArea, Bubble, Candle (OHLC) | While focussed on Node / Edge Graphs, at its core it *can* be used as a visualization library that can visualize almost anything. | |||||||||||||||
| Ability to zoom in and out of charts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Combination of charts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Date-time axis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Feasible with custom code | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Dynamic charts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes Dynamic Node/Edge Graphs | |||||||||
| Export files | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes PNG, JPG | No | No | No | Yes export to PDF/PNG | Yes | Yes SVG | Yes | Yes | No Workaround available | Yes | Yes | Yes PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF | Yes | Yes | No | - | Yes | No | Yes | Yes PNG, PDF, JPG, SVG | ||||||||||||
| External Data Loading | Yes | Yes | - possible with jQuery | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes Using dojo/store | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Highlights region | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Data labels | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Only on a subet of charts, improvement planned for future versions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Text Rotation for Labels | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes With CSS | Yes | Yes | Yes x-y coordinates(of text) needs to be changed after rotation of text | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tooltips about data points | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Google Maps Support | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Firefox | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes 2.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.6+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 1.5+ | Yes | Yes 1.5+ | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Google Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 5.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 5.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 10+ | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Safari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.0+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 3.1 (2.0 on MAC) | Yes | Yes 3.1+ | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 9.5+ | Yes | Yes 9.5+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | - Might work but not officially supported | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 9+ | Yes | Yes 9+ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| iPhone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 1+ | Yes | Yes | Yes 1.0+ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| iPad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Source code repository | github.com/... | bitbucket.org/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| @FusionCharts | @olly_smith | @zingchart | @Elycharts | @RaphaelJS | @dhtmlx | @canvasjs | @dojo | @Highcharts | @philogb | @shieldui | @wijmo | @_rgraph | @amcharts | @KendoUI | @jqChart | @ejscharts | @SteemaSoftware | @sencha | @jecomponents | @yworks | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | fusioncharts.com | flotcharts.org | jqplot.com | github.io/... | zingchart.com | humblesoftware.com/... | elycharts.com | github.com/... | graphdracula.net | mootools.net/... | jsplumbtoolkit.com | dygraphs.com | raphaeljs.com | canvasxpress.org | uni-bayreuth.de/wp/ | dhtmlx.com/... | canvasjs.com | github.com/... | dojotoolkit.org/... | d3js.org | highcharts.com/... | github.io/... | thejit.org | shutterstock.com/... | shieldui.com | wijmo.com | rgraph.net | amcharts.com | telerik.com/... | jqchart.com | google.com/... | ejschart.com | github.com/... | sencha.com/... | jscharts.com | yworks.com/... | jscharting.com |
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User reviews and comments
Many bugs, not reliable, and expensive. Actualy relies on Raphael ... so use Raphael direclty !
What does external data loading mean? Does it not support dynamical json data from server.?
Testé avec angularjs
Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.