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AnyChart vs MetricsGraphics.js: What are the differences?
What is AnyChart? Robust JavaScript (HTML5) charting solution for easily adding interactive charts, maps and dashboards to web pages, apps. AnyChart is a flexible JavaScript (HTML5) based solution that allows you to create interactive and great looking charts. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform charting solution intended for everybody who deals with creation of dashboard, reporting, analytics, statistical, financial or any other data visualization solutions.
What is MetricsGraphics.js? D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data. MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data. It provides a simple way to produce common types of graphics in a principled, consistent and responsive way. The library currently supports line charts, scatterplots and histograms as well as features like rug plots and basic linear regression.
AnyChart and MetricsGraphics.js can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by AnyChart are:
- Cross-platform, cross-browser (IE6+)
- Compatible with virtually all scripting languages (ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, etc.)
- Huge, constantly growing number of supported types of charts, maps, stock/financial graphs, Gantt charts
On the other hand, MetricsGraphics.js provides the following key features:
- Line Chart
- Multi-Line Chart
- Few Observations
MetricsGraphics.js is an open source tool with 7.11K GitHub stars and 497 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MetricsGraphics.js's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of AnyChart
- Easy to use and super fast10
- A lot of chart types8
Pros of MetricsGraphics.js
- Simple2