The following comparison of Adobe Flex charts provides charts classification, compares Flex chart products for different chart type availability and for different visual features like 3D versions of charts.
Prices and other information most actual on April 2010.
Degrafa framework is not included as it does not provide high-level chart components, but low-level geometry building blocks.
YUI сharts is not included also as it is not actually Flex based framework, but JavaScript based on Flash player as rendering engine.
AnyChart, FusionCharts and similar are not included as they are not actually Flex based frameworks, but Flash based with XML configuration.
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Chart type / Framework | Adobe Flex build-in charts | Axiis | BirdEye | Flare | Flexmonster | IBM ILOG Elixir | Kap IT Labs | yFiles | amCharts | |
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Demos | Tour de Flex, Demo | Demo | Demo | Demo | Demo | Demo | On the web site | Demo | Demo | |
Cost | Free | Free | Free | Free | Non-free
contact vendor for prices |
Non-free £ 556 (for EULA),
contact vendor for OEM |
Free for non-commercial,
€ 2'500 (VAT excluded) for full 1-developer package |
Non-free
contact vendor for prices |
Free (with link to amCharts) link-free from €85} | |
License | MPL | MIT | MIT | BSD | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | |
Open source | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Bar/Column charts | Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Stacked | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Floating (Range) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Waterfall | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Layered | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Line charts | Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Spline (Curve) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Step | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Pie charts | Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Doughnut (Ring) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Exploded | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Stacked | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Area charts | Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Spline (Curve) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Stacked | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Floating (Range) | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Histogram (Step) | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Scatter plot charts | Simple | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Bubble | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Circular charts | Radar | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Polar | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Accumulation charts | Pyramid | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Funnel | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Tree/Heat map charts | Tree map | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Heat map | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Finance charts | OHLC | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Candlestick | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
Kagi | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Gauge charts | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Cartogram charts | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Gantt charts | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Dependency graphs | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Nomograms | Smith chart | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Organizational charts | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Flow charts | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Feature / Framework | Adobe Flex build-in charts | Axiis | BirdEye | Flare | Flexmonster | IBM ILOG Elixir | Kap IT Labs | yFiles | amCharts |
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3D charts | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Rotate, zoom chart in 3D | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Show-up & other animation effects | Yes | No | Partial
(only for Dependency Graph) |
Yes | Partial
(only for Pie Chart) |
Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Interactive legend | Via customization, see | No | No | No | No | Via customization | Yes | No | Yes |
Show total values over the bars | Yes see, see | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
String formater for labels | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
Ability to define custom color for each bar (chart item) | Yes see, see | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
Combined charts | Yes - see | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Multiple axis | Yes - see | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |