DevExpress Reports vs Eclipse BIRT

DevExpress Reports is an embedded reporting platform for developers creating reports in.NET applications. It supports report creation, editing, conversion, printing, and export. Designers integrate with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains Rider, and applications can include an end-user designer for report creation and editing at runtime. Built-in elements include charts, cross tabs, gauges, barcodes, rich text, tables, images, and pivot grids.

Data sources include SQL databases, Excel and CSV, MongoDB, JSON, XML, Entity Framework, XPO, and standard.NET data providers. Supported integrations cover WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC and Core, Blazor, Angular, React, Vue, and.NET MAUI. Export formats include PDF, DOCX, RTF, XLS, XLSX, TXT, MHT, CSV, HTML, and image formats such as SVG. It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS environments, with Docker, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform among hosting options. The Reporting Subscription costs $799.99 a year per developer for 12 months and includes product updates and technical support. There is no free plan, but a fully functional 30-day trial is available.

Eclipse BIRT creates textual reports and visual charts from data drawn from databases, files, Java, JavaScript, and web services. Its Eclipse-based report designer, runtime, and charting engine can work together, while the charting engine can also be used on its own. The designer offers a drag-and-drop layout view, data and resource explorers, a script editor, and chart and expression builders. Reports can connect to JDBC, XML, web services, and flat files; one report can combine multiple sources using inner or outer joins. Data can be sorted, summarized, filtered, and grouped, including by sums or percentages of totals. Supported report forms include lists, charts, crosstabs, letters, documents, and compound reports. The engine can produce HTML, paginated HTML, Word, Excel, PostScript, ODT, ODS, ODP, and PDF, and export data to CSV. Designs use open XML and can be embedded in desktop or web applications, especially those using Java and Jakarta EE. BIRT is free open-source software under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), with Linux, macOS, Windows, web, API, and self-hosted availability.