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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✓ |
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| C++ | ✓ |
✓ |
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| C# | |
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✓ |
✓ |
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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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✓ |
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| Linux | |
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✓ |
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✓ |
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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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✓ |
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| Oracle | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| MS Access | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| Firebird | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| XML | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| OLE DB | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| ODBC | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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| Internal application datasets | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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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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✓ |
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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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✓ |
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| Advanced printing modes | |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
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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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✓ |
✓ |
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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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✓ |
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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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✓ |
✓ |
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| Images Jpeg/PNG/BMP/GIF/TIFF | ✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
✓ |
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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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✓ |
✓ |
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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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✓ |
✓ |
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✓ |
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✓ |
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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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✓ |
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