amCharts vs Epoch by Fastly: What are the differences?

Developers describe amCharts as "Advanced javascript charting library that will suit any data visualization need". amCharts is an advanced charting library that will suit any data visualization need. Our charting solution include Column, Bar, Line, Area, Step, Step without risers, Smoothed line, Candlestick, OHLC, Pie/Donut, Radar/ Polar, XY/Scatter/Bubble, Bullet, Funnel/Pyramid charts as well as Gauges. On the other hand, Epoch by Fastly is detailed as "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.

amCharts and Epoch by Fastly can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by amCharts are:

• Free or Commercial
• All chart and map types you might need
• Works on all modern browsers and also old IE

On the other hand, Epoch by Fastly provides the following key features:

• Built for Developers - open source
• Real-time Charting
• Unified Styling

Epoch by Fastly is an open source tool with 4.99K GitHub stars and 292 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Epoch by Fastly's open source repository on GitHub.