Graphing Library for 50k points? PHP or Javascript

Question

After a lot of searching on SO, I couldn't find an answer to my specific use-case.

I've been using jQplot for a PHP/Javascript page that plots 100-200 different series with up to 50 points each. The problem is, that it is drawing each individual series as its own canvas layer, and eats up a TON of memory in the browser.

I want to get to the point of drawing 2000 series of 30-50 points each, and can deal without a lot of the interactive features that a lot of javascript graphing libraries present.

Is there a free (public license) graphing library out there that produces static images? Would such libraries take a long time to render such an image?

I do like the way jqplot looks, but I can't really expand my graph beyond 400x400 px without it taking a huge amount of RAM.

Check out this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/793808/svg-charting-library — Vlad Otrocol, Jul 23 '13 at 12:45
Is a set of SVG charts going to render that many points effectively? — bo_knows, Jul 23 '13 at 12:48
[Google Charts](https://developers.google.com/chart/) might be of interest. — , Jul 23 '13 at 13:06
google charts does not produce static images. I would imagine it'd use a lot of memory also. — bo_knows, Jul 23 '13 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 13:50

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Did you take a look at the PHP class oriented framework http://pchart.sourceforge.net/ ?

answered Sep 30 '13 at 13:50

Ovi Faur

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