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Epoch by Fastly vs CanvasJS : What are the differences?
Epoch by Fastly: A general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth, and high performance visualizations. Epoch is a general purpose charting library for application developers and visualization designers. It focuses on two different aspects of visualization programming: basic charts for creating historical reports, and real-time charts for displaying frequently updating timeseries data; CanvasJS : Beautiful HTML5 Charts Library built on JavaScript & HTML5 Canvas Element. It runs across devices including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Microsoft Surface, Desktops, etc. This allows you to create Rich Dashboards that work across devices without compromising on Maintainability or Functionality.
Epoch by Fastly and CanvasJS can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Epoch by Fastly are:
- Built for Developers - open source
- Real-time Charting
- Unified Styling
On the other hand, CanvasJS provides the following key features:
- Themes
- Chart Types
- Interactivity
Epoch by Fastly and CanvasJS are both open source tools. It seems that Epoch by Fastly with 4.99K GitHub stars and 294 forks on GitHub has more adoption than CanvasJS with 2 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks.
Pros of CanvasJS
- 30+ Chart Types3
- Easy Customizations1
- Zooming, Panning1
- Dynamic Charts1
- Multiseries Charts1
- Drilldown Charts1
- Multiple Axis Support1
- Themes1
- Synchronized Charts1
- Interactivity1
- Easy Customization1
- Works across Devices and Browsers1
- Well Documented1
- Simple API1
- Responsive Charts1
- Performance1
- Exporting as Image1
- Low learning curve1
Pros of Epoch by Fastly
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Cons of CanvasJS
- It's not free1
