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Open Source Report Comparison

BIRT [-] JasperReports

© [-] Pentaho

© [-]

Open Source Website eclipse.org/birt jasperforge.com reporting.pentaho.com

Commercial Web Site birt-exchange.com jaspersoft.com/reporting pentaho.com

License Eclipse Public License JasperReports LGPL V3

iReport GPL V3 Pentaho Reporting LGPL V2.1 (or later)

Report Designer BIRT Report Designer Jaspersoft iReport 4.5.0 Pentaho Report Designer 3.8.3-GA

Designer Platforms Windows 32-bit & Linux

OS X is unofficial

Windows 64-bit & 32-bit Linux

Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac OS X

Eclipse Plug-in Available

Note that the Pentaho Design Studio is

not a report designer even though it is an

Eclipse plug-in.

NetBeans Plug-in Available

For NetBeans IDE 6.5.x and later

Standalone Java Client Available

JasperStudio 1.0.1

rewrite of iReport for Eclipse

Design Paradigm web page design

frames tables lists banded reports pixel positioning

Note that the Pentaho Design Studio is

not a report designer even though it is an

Eclipse plug-in.

Report Compilation Not required Required Not required

Report Format XML

(.RPTDESIGN)

Report design files (.JRXML)

compile to Java Byte Code

(.JASPER)

Deploy/Run .JASPER files

XML

Report file (.PRPT) is a ZIP of Design and

other resources

Report Designer Components

Common Report Designer

Components:

Report Editor

Palette

Data Explorer

Property Editor

Outline view of report structure

Report Preview

Expression Builder

Report Problems

Chart Builder

Script Editor

Geometric shapes

Barcodes

Callouts / notes in design mode in property editor

as report element

Table of Contents as a standard

component

Index component (as a standard

component)

Sub-reports

Side-by-side report components

Tables

Cross-tabs

Experimental

(since Pentaho 3.5)

Horizontal Panning

Always scroll down even if

crosstab expands side-to-side

Newspaper / multi-column layout

Hyperlinks within a report

Actionable charts drill-down hyperlinks mouse-overs

Partial

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS

controlled format)

Conditional Formatting

Data Sources

Multiple data sources and queries

per report

plus support for joining them

via sub-reports

via sub-reports

or charts

Support for joining multiple data

sources in the Designer

Report can further manipulate

query data

re-sort filter group

Partial

Data Sources Type (native JDBC

below)

Generic JDBC

XML

Web Services

Flat files:

CSV SSV PSV TSV

Hadoop Hive

OLAP MDX

Scripted:

o POJO

o EJB

o Hibernate

o XML Stream

Generic JDBC

NetBeans JDBC

XML

JavaBeans

CSV File

Text File

Microsoft Excel (.xlsx & .xls)

Hibernate HSQL

Spring Hibernate

EJBQL

XML/A Server

Mondrian OLAP

POJOs

Custom

Remote XML files

JSON

Hadoop Hive

Generic JDBC

XML

Manual Table

OLAP

Pentaho Analysis

XML/A via OLAP4j

Pentaho Metadata

Pentaho Data Integration

Scripted:

o POJO

o EJB

o Hibernate

o JMI

Native JDBC Drivers requires user to

locate and install

MS SQLServer

MySQL

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Sybase

Vertica

AS/400

Apache Derby

Borland Interbase

Calpont InfiniDB

ExtenDB

Firebird SQL

Greenplum

Gupta SQL Base

H2

Hypersonic

IBM DB2

Infobright

Informix

Ingres

Ingres VectorWise

Intersystems Cache

KingbaseES

LucidDB

MS Access

MS SQLServer

MS SQL Server (Native)

MaxDB (SAP DB)

MonetDB

MySQL

Neoview

Netezza

Oracle

Oracle RDB

PostgreSQL

Remedy Action Request System

SAP ERP System

SQLite

SybaseIQ

Teradata

UniVerse database

Vertica

dbase III/IV/5

Query Designer

Graphical Query Designer special type of data source

(SQL Leonardo)

(SQL-Leonardo)

Scripting JavaScript

Java Event Handlers

JavaScript

Groovy

Java

JavaScript

Bean Script Framework (BSF)

Bean-Script Host (BSH)

Single Value Query

Metadata data-source scripting extension

Output Formats

Paginated HTML

Unpaginated HTML

XHTML

PDF

Excel (XLS 7 XLSX)

XML

via API

Plain Text

Rich Text (RTF)

Powerpoint (PPT)

CSV

Postscript

OpenOffice report types

(document + spreadsheet)

Flash (SWF)

Custom Formats

Charts

Chart Wizard

Chart Interactivity

mouse-over

tool tips

drill-through

hyperlinks

hide/show series

etc.

hyperlinks

Chart themes

Precise control over format of all

control elements

Common Chart Types:

2D

3D

Pie

Multi-pie

Bar

Stacked Bar

Bar XY Line

Line XY Area

Area XY

Stacked Area

Bar Line

Bubble

Scatter Plot

Multi-Axis

Study Charts

Ring Chart

Tube chart

Cone chart

Pyramid

Time Series

Meter / Gauge

Waterfall

Step

Step Area

Difference

Radar / Spider

Thermometer

Candlestick / Stock Chart

(High/Low)

Gantt

Survey Scale

Bar Sparkline Via regular charts

Via regular charts

Line Sparkline Via regular charts

Via regular charts

Pie Sparkline Via regular charts

Via regular charts

Maps as a standard component

Experimental

SVG (Vector Graphics) charts

Report Parameterization

Static Parameters select

parameter values from a hard-

coded list of values

Dynamic Parameters users select

parameters from a list of values

that came from a database

Cascading parameters

Cascading input controls are

report independent

Calendar date-picker for

parameters of type date.

Can specify default values

Drop-down list boxes

Radio buttons

Check boxes

Combo Boxes

Aggregates - Summary Data

Common Aggregations

Average

Count

Distinct Count

First

Is-Bottom-N

Is-Botton-N-Percent

Is-Top-N

Is-Top-N-Percent

Last

Max

Median

Min

Mode

Moving Ave

Percentile

Percent-Rank

Percent-Sum

Quartile

Rank

Running Count

Running Sum

Standard Deviation

Sum

Variance

Weighted Average

Average

Count

Distinct Count

Sum

First

Lowest (Minimum)

Highest (Maximum)

Standard Deviation

Variance

System

Average

Count

Count by Page

Group Count

Sum

Minimum

Maximum

Sum Quotient

Sum Quotient Percent

Calculation

Count for Page

Sum for Page

Sum (Running)

Count (Running)

Group Count (Running)

Count Distinct (Running)

Average (Running)

Minimum (Running)

Maximum (Running)

Percent of Total (Running)

User Defined Functions /

Expressions

Java JavaScript

Java JavaScript or Groovy

User Defined Aggregates

Designer provides

Partial

Component Reuse

Templates

(custom report starting points)

User-defined Libraries

(reusable report pieces )

Styles

colors

fonts

borders

margin

CSS

Trademarks

Copyright© 2010-2012 Innovent

Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved.

BIRT is a registered trademark of

the Eclipse Foundation Inc.

JasperReports is a registered

trademark of Jaspersoft

Corporation.

Pentaho is a registered trademark of

Pentaho Inc