DHTMLX vs. Mendix

DHTMLX is an excellent choice for incorporating complex components into your website or platform. Its versatility and customization options make it suitable for various industries and use cases. With DHTMLX, you can seamlessly integrate sophisticated data grids, interactive charts, customizable UI controls, and dynamic calendars into your existing infrastructure. These components can be tailored to match your branding and design requirements, ensuring a seamless integration with your platform's aesthetics. Additionally, DHTMLX provides comprehensive documentation and responsive support, making it easy for developers to utilize the full potential of the components. In summary, DHTMLX offers the flexibility and functionality needed to enhance your software applications with powerful and visually appealing features.

I think it's well suited if you have data available and you want to create customized solutions for different types of users. Mendix is very good at doing that. It allows you to do it very easily. So those are good use cases.

Incentivized

• Gantt: Moving tasks or entire projects
• Gantt: A linked grid to display resource load
• Gantt: Full control allowing you to decide how to implement
• Pricing was reasonable and we can upgrade to Enterprise by paying the difference if required.

Incentivized

• Using Mendix you can build an application in a week compared to building the same application in Java in 1 month.
• You can simultaneously build applications for all kinds of devices (Desktop, Mobile and tablets).
• All in one tool, in Mendix Modeler you can manage databases, webservices, Mendix code , Java code, etc.

• We would like to have more cell controls (like a Date Time Picker, Date Range Picker)
• In the cell editing mode we would like to have a better integration into the Angular world

• Earlier versions lacked in UI/Ux. This is still improving.
• Since everyone and anyone can create custom add ons (widgets), Mendix could improve their quality checks (but not as rigid as eg Apple).
• Upgradeability used to be somewhat of an issue. Version 7 looks to be handling this better than previous versions.

With regard to the two major components we used, namely the tabular representation and the graphical modeler, we were able to effectively replace the existing building blocks of our applications by integrating them. We were able to retain existing functionalities and benefit from a significant enhancement with what DHTMLX offers natively. This made it easy for us to get our end-users to adopt the change.

Drawing from my hands-on experience with Mendix, I can confidently state that the platform aptly fulfills our needs for web application development. Mendix stands out by providing a marketplace replete with pre-built templates and widgets. This feature empowers users to leverage readily available components, hastening the development process and contributing to an enhanced overall usability of the platform.

Incentivized

I think their support system is really professional. They answer question quickly and accurately. They have a ticket system that allows to track the current status of a request. The only point for imporvement is a way for me to postpone an answer. Tickets get closed automatically after some time. I feel that the user should have the option to change to an on hold status, allowing for more time to respond to a ticket.

Incentivized

DHTMLX library boasts lots of readily available components that can be easily integrated into web applications. Each feature is equipped with a multitude of events and methods that provide developers with complete control over data manipulation and management. DHTMLX is more easy for building enterprise-level applications that require complex UI elements and data visualization.

Incentivized

Because most of our apps work closely with our main system (ERP) and other tools, we went with Mendix. It's good at easily connecting with lots of different systems, which is exactly what we need. Another thing we like about it is that it can handle growth well, and its pricing is straightforward and easy to understand.

Incentivized

• Users appreciate the Spreadsheet like way of working with data
• Gantt charts are widely known and people like to work with them

• Without Mendix we could not have been where we are now. A development platform as Mendix can make the difference in a constantly changing environment.
• Upgrading to newer versions of Mendix is a breeze when you stay within a main version (e.g. M6.x to Mx6.x+1) and even between versions (Mx5 to Mx6) most of the time it is no problem at all and there are only minor changes needed to upgrade.
• Learning Mendix is simple. Just start playing with it and see for yourself how easy it is and feel the joy of developing applications.