Performance Comparison between Unity and D3.js for Cross-Platform Visualization on Mobile Devices

Modern data visualizations are developed as interactive and intuitive graphic applications. In the development process, programmers basically pursue the same goal: creating an application with a great performance. Such applications have to display information at its best way in every possible situation. In this paper, we present a performance comparison on mobile devices between D3.js and Unity based on a Baby Name Explorer example. The results of the performance analysis demonstrated that Unity and D3.js are great tools for information visualization. While Unity convinced by its performance results according to our test criteria, currently Unity does not provide a visualization library.