Comparison of Adobe Flex charts

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.

Classification

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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 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
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
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