Highcharts vs React PivotTable: What are the differences?
Highcharts: A charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types; React PivotTable: React-based drag'n'drop pivot table with Plotly.js charts. Pivot tables are interactive data exploration and summarization tools which have been a critical part of data analysts’ toolkits for the past 25 years, especially in spreadsheets like Excel. PivotTable.js is one of the most popular Javascript pivot table implementations; react-pivottable is a reimagined version for the modern web.
Highcharts and React PivotTable can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Highcharts are:
- It works in all modern mobile and desktop browsers including the iPhone/iPad and Internet Explorer from version 6
- Free for non-commercial
- One of the key features of Highcharts is that under any of the licenses, free or not, you are allowed to download the source code and make your own edits
On the other hand, React PivotTable provides the following key features:
- Roll up, unroll, pivot, and chart data
- Summarize your data with various statistical functions
- Slice, dice, and drag the menu aside if it's in the way
Highcharts and React PivotTable are both open source tools. It seems that Highcharts with 8.79K GitHub stars and 2.32K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React PivotTable with 497 GitHub stars and 98 GitHub forks.