When comparing AnyChart vs Shield UI, 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 AnyChart is ranked 5th. 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 A lot of different data formats
xml, json, csv, js api.
Pro Lots of chart types
Including bar, line, area, scatter, waterfall, spline, funnel, bubble, polar, column, columnrange, pie, box plot, angular gauge, areasplinerange, and other types of "basic" charts (AnyChart); Gantt charts (AnyGantt); Maps (AnyMap), and Financial/Stock charts (AnyStock).
Pro Independent from other js libraries
no jQuery or libraries.
Pro IE6+ support, along with mobile browsers
Pro Experienced team and long product history
AnyChart is on the market since 2003.
Pro Events support
Pro Flexibility
Any part of chart can be adjusted.
Pro A lot of integration templates
Technical integration templates for many popular stacks.
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.
Cons
Con Proprietary
Con Expensive
Once you use it on anything but a site, it rapidly gets expensive.
Con Commercial
Pay by developer starting from 349$.
