When comparing PERGOLA vs Shield UI Charts, the Slant community recommends Shield UI Charts for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript drawing libraries?” Shield UI Charts is ranked 9th while PERGOLA is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Shield UI Charts is:
There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.
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Pros
Pro HTML
Pergola runs seamlessly in an HTML environment (option in configuration file). All the examples are provided both as SVG standalone and embedded in HTML, and are strictly equal.
Besides its universal Node Helper (http://www.svgmagazine.com/jul2011/dom-helper.html) Pergola also provides the equivalent for building HTML nodes and <foreignObject> HTML nodes.
Pro SVG native
The first and most accomplished SVG native library, 100% cross-platform compatible.
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
Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.
Pro Good documentation
Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)
Pro Interactive charts
The charting widget is built to facilitate client side interactions and notifications.
Pro Out of the box pan-and-zoom
Zoom-in on specific points of interest on the graph with the mouse – a single property allows this out-of-the-box.
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.
Cons
Con Commercial license
PERGOLA does not offer a free version. The price for a single developer to use PERGOLA is 400 €.
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.