Fast Report Comparison
Here you can compare Fast Reports report generator tools for various languages and IDEs, various platforms and operating systems.
Let's compare cross-platform report generators, their functionality and relative advantages.
The table covers desktop reporting, web-reporting (independent as well as with different server support), databases, multi-platform reporting, export filters and conversion from other report generators.
This table will help in selecting the right reporting tool for your projects.
FastReport FMX | FastReport VCL 5 | FastReport Lazarus | FastReport.Net | FastReport.Mono | |||
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Object Pascal | ✓ |
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FreePascal | |
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C++ | ✓ |
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C# | |
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VB.NET | |
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✓ |
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Oxygene (Object Pascal based) | |
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✓ |
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Full sources | ✓ |
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IDE | |||||||
Embarcadero Delphi v 4-XE3 | |
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Embarcadero C++Builder 6-XE3 | |
✓ |
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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE | |
✓ |
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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 | ✓ |
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Embarcadero RAD Studio XE3 | ✓ |
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Embarcadero Delphi Prism | |
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✓ |
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Lazarus | |
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✓ |
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005-2012 | |
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✓ |
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MonoDevelop | |
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✓ |
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OS (platform) | |||||||
Microsoft Windows | ✓ |
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Mac OS | ✓ |
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Linux | |
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Report engine | |||||||
Bands | ✓ |
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Code based | ✓ |
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Scripting language | |||||||
Pascal Script | ✓ |
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C++ Script | ✓ |
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J Script | ✓ |
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VB Script | ✓ |
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C# | |
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✓ |
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VB.NET | |
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✓ |
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Data Base support | |||||||
Visual SQL Builder | |
✓ |
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MS SQL | ✓ |
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Oracle | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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MS Access | ✓ |
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Firebird | ✓ |
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XML | ✓ |
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OLE DB | ✓ |
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ODBC | ✓ |
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Internal application datasets | ✓ |
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Custom connections | ✓ |
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Reporting features | |||||||
Dialogue forms | ✓ |
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Report inheritance | ✓ |
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Drill-downs | ✓ |
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HTML tags in text object | ✓ |
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Preview component | ✓ |
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Design-time visual report designer | ✓ |
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Run-time visual report designer | ✓ |
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Stand-alone designer | |
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✓ |
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Dot-matrix printer support | |
✓ |
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Advanced printing modes | |
✓ |
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Report objects | |||||||
Text | ✓ |
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Shape | ✓ |
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Picture | ✓ |
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Sub-report | ✓ |
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System text | ✓ |
✓ |
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Chart | ✓ |
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Barcode | ✓ |
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2D barcode | ✓ |
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Map | |
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✓ |
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Zip code | |
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✓ |
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Cellular | |
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✓ |
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OLE | |
✓ |
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Rich Text | |
✓ |
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Gradient | ✓ |
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Cross-tab | ✓ |
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Table | |
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✓ |
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Web-reporting | |||||||
Integrated HTTP server | |
✓ |
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CGI | |
✓ |
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ISAPI | |
✓ |
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ASP.NET | |
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✓ |
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MVC | |
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✓ |
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Export in formats | |||||||
Acrobat PDF | ✓ |
✓ |
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Images Jpeg/PNG/BMP/GIF/TIFF | ✓ |
✓ |
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Rich Text | |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Word OOXML (docx) | |
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✓ |
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PowerPoint OOXML (pptx) | |
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✓ |
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HTML | ✓ |
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MHT (web archive) | |
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✓ |
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Microsoft XPS | |
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✓ |
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Excel OLE | |
✓ |
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Excel XML | |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Excel binary (xls) | |
✓ |
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Excel OOXML (xlsx) | |
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✓ |
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Comma separated values (CSV) | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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DBF (table) | |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Plain Text | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Open Document Speadsheet (OpenOffice) | |
✓ |
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✓ |
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Open Document Text (OpenOffice) | |
✓ |
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Clouds (DropBox) | |
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✓ |
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Convertors from | |||||||
Quick Report | |
✓ |
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Report Builder | |
✓ |
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Rave Reports | |
✓ |
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Microsoft Reporting Services (RDL) | |
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✓ |
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Crystal Reports | |
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✓ |
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FastReport/FreeReport VCL 2.* | |
✓ |
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FastReport.NET | |
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FastReport VCL 4 | ✓ |
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