When comparing Shield UI vs Highcharts, the Slant community recommends Shield UI for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript charting libraries? ” Shield UI is ranked 3rd while Highcharts is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Shield UI is:
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Pros
Pro Many chart types available
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
Pro Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket available
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
Pro Supports combining different charts
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
Pro Supports combining different charts
You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.
Pro Good documentation
Very handy with examples and explanations.
Pro Excellent browser support
Highcharts supports all modern browsers (including IE6 and up), iOS and Android.
Pro Large and active community
Highcharts has a large and supportive community, resulting in a fast response from both stack overflow and the Highcharts forum.
Pro Lots of good examples
The site has a selection of good examples that will help you get started quickly.
Pro Supports multiple Y axes
Important for trend correlation, eg. comparing number of clicks to sale amounts. Not same scales / units.
Pro Library to support Microsoft .NET
Compatable with .NET framework 4+, can develop graphs from server side for ASP .NETand ASP .NET MVC applications.
Cons
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
Con Commercial
Highcharts is not free for commercial projects, with a starting price of US$590 for Single Developer + Maintenance & Support
Con The examples are not that great
For instance, example's JsFiddle may get stalled when loading.