[Web chart Series II] library summarization and comparison of various JS charts

Preface

Use js to display charts in the browser. See Series 1.

Comparison of technologies for drawing SVG, VML, and HTML5 canvas on the Web end

The number of JS libraries for Web charts is large:

Name	Brief Introduce	Browser support	Site URL	Comments
$ FX ()	1. lightweight 2. Compress code 3. js + CSS	MIT and GPL license Open Source	Good	Http://fx.inetcat.com/
Amcharts	Column, bar, line, area, step, smoothed line, candlestick, ohlc, pie/donut, radar/polar, XY/scatter/bubble charts	Not open source	Http://www.amcharts.com/
Arbor	Force Directed Graph	Not support good in IE	Http://arborjs.org/
Bluff	1. for Ruby 2. Bluff, 2008-2010 James coglan	GPL and MIT licenses.	Http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
Canvas 3D Graph	Canvas 3D graph is a special type of bar graph that plot numbers in 3D	BSD Licence	Http://dragan.yourtree.org/code/canvas-3d-graph/	3D
Canvas pie chart with tooltips
Canvasxpress	Based on the <canvas> tag implemented in HTML5		Not support good in IE	Http://canvasxpress.org/
Ccchart	Not support good in IE	Http://jsgt.org/c/
Cubism	1. Base D3 2. Time Series chart	Not support good in IE
Cytoscape	A lot of plugins are available for various kinds of problem domains, including bioinformatics, social network analysis, and semantic web.	Not free, lgpl.	Good	Http://www.cytoscape.org/
Cytoscape Web
D3.js	Not support good in IE	Http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
Dojox. charting	Mobile	Http://dojotoolkit.org/projects/dojox
Dracula	Graph Dracula is a set of tools to display and layout Interactive graphs, along with varous related algorithms.			Https://github.com/strathausen/dracula
Dygraphs	Produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to define e and interpret them	Open Source	Http://dygraphs.com/	Time Series
Ejschart (emprise JavaScript charts)		Not open source	Http://www.ejschart.com/	Not open source
Elycharts	Rapha using L and jquery libraries. Line charts with Spline support Area and areaspline charts Column/bar charts Combined line/area charts Sparklines and sparkbars Pie charts	Open-source and free (even for your cial use)		Http://elycharts.com/
Ext. js	Not free	Not free
Fgcharting	Update to jquery Visualize
Flot	Good	Http://code.google.com/p/flot/	No bubble chart
Flotr	Based on the prototype JavaScript framework	Good	Http://code.google.com/p/flotr/	Support not well
Flotr2	Flex + flash	Http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/
Google chart	Good	Https://developers.google.com/chart? Hl = ZH-CN	Bubble Chart not well
Graphael	Base Raphael	Good	Http://g.raphaeljs.com/
Gvchart	Base Google chart tools Area, line, bar, column, and pie	Http://www.ivellios.toron.pl/technikalia/2010/06/22/gvchart-plugin-jquery-with-google-charts/	Bubble Chart not well
Highchart	Not free	Http://www.highcharts.com/	Bubble Chart not well
ICO	Base Raphael, line chart	Https://github.com/alexyoung/ico	No bubble chart
Javascript infovis Toolkit	Good	Http://thejit.org/
Jqplot	Line, bar and pie charts	Good	Http://www.jqplot.com/	Bubble Chart not well
Jquery Google charts	Can't access site	Http://www.maxb.net/scripts/jgcharts/	Support not well
Jquery sparklines	This jquery plugin generates sparklines		Http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/	Sparklines
Jquery Visualize	HTML5 canvas charts driven by HTML table elements		Https://github.com/filamentgroup/jQuery-Visualize	Bubble not support
Jschart	JS charts lets you create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs.	Not open source	Http://www.jscharts.com/
Jsplumb	Good	Https://github.com/sporritt/jsPlumb
Jsxgraph	Interactive geometry, function ploy, charting, and data visualization	Lgpl-lesser GNU General Public License.	Good	Http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wp/	Poor Graph Display
Leigeber	Can't access site	Http://www.leigeber.com/
Milkchart	Generate a graph similar to Microsoft Excel.	MIT license	Http://mootools.net/forge/p/milkchart
Moochart	Moochart is a plugin for mootools 1.2 that draws bubble diagrams on the canvas tag. Future versions might include pie, Bar & line graphs.		Not support good in IE	Http://moochart.coneri.se/
Mootools	1. provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using JavaScript and the <canvas> Object 2. From 2008, only two version	Mit-style license.	Http://mootools.net/
Moowheel	Plugin mootools that generates charts from accessible data tables.		Not good	Http://labs.unwieldy.net/moowheel/
Morris. js	Base Raphael, line chart, bar	Http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/
Paper. js	Runs on top of the HTML5 canvas. It offers a clean scene graph/Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezr curves,		Not support good in IE	Http://paperjs.org/
Plotkit	Plotkit is a chart and graph plow.library for Javascript. It has support for HTML canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support.			Http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/	Support not well
Primer	Http://github.com/mojombo/primer/tree/master	Support not well
Processing. js	Not support good in IE	Http://processingjs.org/
Protochart	No longer maintained	Http://code.google.com/p/protochart/
Protovis	1. protovis is no longer under active development. 2. To D3	Http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/
Raphael	Http://raphaeljs.com/
Reflection	Ogos, icons and dynamic image content such as forum avatars.			Http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/
Rgraph	Not open source	Http://www.rgraph.net/	Not open source
Rgraph2	Rgraph is a complete point-> line chart web implementation based on raphaeljs.		Https://github.com/hafeyang/rgraph2.git
Sigma	Sigma. JS is an open-source lightweight JavaScript library to draw graphs, using the HTML canvas element. It has been especially designed:	MIT license.	Http://sigmajs.org/	View
Smoothie charts	Not support good in IE	Http://smoothiecharts.org/
Style chart	Line and bar chart, less support	Http://chart.inetsoft.com/
Timeline	Timeline	Http://timeline.verite.co/
Timeplot	Timeplot	Http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/
Tuftegraph	Not support good in IE	Http://xaviershay.github.com/tufte-graph/	Not support good in IE
Yahoo UI Charts Control	Line, marker, area, spline, column, bar and pie charts.	Good	Http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

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How to choose a good library that applies to your own. For different requirements, the evaluation standards are also different. Here I provide some suggestions for items:

1. No plugin
2. browser support
3. UI
4. Performance
5. Free; Open Source
6. Resource

7. othes special function demand