Comparison of Adobe Flex charts

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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.

## Contents

* 1 Classification
* 2 Flex Chart products
* 3 Flex Chart features
* 4 See also

## Classification

* Bar/Column charts

* Line charts

* Pie charts

* Area charts

* Scatter plot charts

* Circular charts

* Accumulation charts

* Tree/Heat map charts

* Gauge charts

* Cartogram charts

* Gantt charts

* Dependency graphs

* Nomograms

* Organizational charts

* Flow charts

This gallery shows:

* Bar/Column chart \- uses bars/columns to show frequencies or values for different categories.
* Line chart \- two-dimensional Scatterplot of ordered observations where the observations are connected following their order.
* Pie chart \- shows percentage values as a slice of a pie.
* Area chart \- line chart which displays graphically quantitive data. The area between axis and line are commonly emphasized with colors, textures and hatchings.
* Scatter plot \- type of mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values as collection of points for two variables for a set of data.
* Circular charts \- Radar chart (Spider chart) or Polar chart is a two-dimensional chart of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point.
* Accumulation charts \- Pyramid (Cone) or Funnel chart displays data that, when combined, equals 100%.
* Tree/Heat map \- chart where the areas of the rectangles correspond to values. Other dimensions can be represented with colour or hue.
* Finance chart \- stock market prices are often depicted with an open-high-low-close chart with a traditional bar chart of volume at the bottom.
* Cartogram chart is a map in which some thematic mapping variable – such as population, economic etc. – is substituted for land area.
* Gantt chart \- helps in scheduling complex projects.
* Dependency graph is a directed graph representing dependencies of several objects towards each other.
* Nomogram \- a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a function: it uses a coordinate system other than Cartesian coordinates.
* Organizational chart is a diagram that shows the structure of an organization and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs.
* Flow chart \- a diagram, that represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various kinds, and their order by connecting these with arrows.

## Flex Chart products

Chart type / Framework  | Adobe Flex built-in charts | Axiis | BirdEye | Flare | Flexmonster | IBM ILOG Elixir | Kap IT Labs | yFiles | amCharts | AnyChart | LiveGap Chart

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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

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| Free (with link to amCharts) link-free from €85}  | Free (with link to AnyChart) Team license available}  | Free
License | MPL | MIT  | MIT  | BSD  | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Free
Open source | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Bar/Column charts  | Simple  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Stacked  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Floating (Range)  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Waterfall | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Layered  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Line charts  | Simple  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Spline (Curve)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Step  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Pie charts  | Simple  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Doughnut (Ring) | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Exploded | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Stacked | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Area charts  | Simple  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Spline (Curve)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Stacked  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Floating (Range)  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Histogram (Step) | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Scatter plot charts  | Simple  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Bubble | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Circular charts  | Radar | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Polar | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Accumulation charts  | Pyramid  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Funnel  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Tree/Heat map charts  | Tree map | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Heat map | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Finance charts  | OHLC | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Candlestick | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Kagi | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Gauge charts  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Cartogram charts | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Gantt charts | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Dependency graphs  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Nomograms  | Smith chart | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Organizational charts | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Flow charts  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No

## Flex Chart features

Feature / Framework  | Adobe Flex built-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  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Via customization  | Yes  | No  | Yes
Show total values over the bars  | Yes  | 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  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes
Combined charts  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes
Multiple axis  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes

## See also

* Tom Gonzalez about IBM ILOG Elixir (January 2008)
* Josh Tynjala TreeMap component at GitHub

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