|
Creator |
Development started |
First public release |
Latest stable version |
Cost (USD) |
License |
Notes |
ADMB |
D. Fournier, ADMB Project |
|
|
11 / 2012 |
Free |
BSD 3-clause (aka new) License |
Automatic differentiation makes it well suited to complex minimization problems |
Analytica |
Lumina Decision Systems |
1982 (Demos) |
1994 |
7/2015 |
Free (Analytica Free 101), $995 (Professional), $2795 (Enterprise) |
Proprietary |
A numerical modeling environment with a declarative and visual programming language based on influence diagrams. |
Ch |
SoftIntegration |
|
2001 |
7.0 / 2012 |
$399 (commercial) / $199 (academic) / Free (student) |
Proprietary |
C/C++ based numerical computing and graphical plotting[1] |
DADiSP |
DSP Development |
1984 |
1986 |
6.7 / 2015 |
$1995 (commercial) / $129 (academic) / Free (student) |
Proprietary |
Numeric computations for science and engineering featuring a spreadsheet like interface. |
Dyalog APL |
Dyalog Ltd. |
1981 |
1983 |
13.2 / January 2013 |
£850/year or 2% royalty (non-commercial £50, edu / unreg Free) |
Proprietary |
A modern dialect of APL, enhanced with features for functional and object-oriented programming. |
Euler Math Toolbox |
René Grothmann |
1987 |
1988 |
2015-12-10 / 10 December 2015 |
Free |
GPL |
Also a computer algebra system through interface with Maxima |
Fityk |
M. Wojdyr |
|
2002 |
1.0.1 / 2011 |
$115 (1.x binaries) / Free (source code and 0.x binaries) |
GPL |
interactive graphics, scriptable, specialized in curve fitting and peak fitting, 2D only |
FreeMat |
Samit Basu |
|
|
4.1 / November 28, 2011 |
Free |
GPL |
Codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code. Mostly compatible with MATLAB. |
GAUSS |
Aptech Systems |
|
1984 |
15.1 / March 2015 |
Not free |
Proprietary |
|
IGOR Pro |
WaveMetrics |
1986 |
1988 |
6.36 (6.3.6.4) / 2014 |
$595 (commercial) / $435 (academic) / $85 (student) |
Proprietary |
interactive graphics, programmable, 2D/3D, used for science and engineering, large data sets. |
J |
Jsoftware |
1989 |
1990 |
J802 / July 9, 2014 |
Free |
GPL |
online access to: J Application Library (JAL) |
Julia |
Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, and other[2] contributors |
2009 |
2012 |
0.3.1 / 2014 |
Free |
MIT License |
Open source language and environment for scientific computing. Direct calls of C functions from code (no wrappers or special APIs needed). Designed for cloud parallel computing in mind with LLVM JIT as a backend. Lightweight "green" threading (coroutines). Efficient support for Unicode. Powerful shell-like capabilities for managing other processes. Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities. |
LabVIEW |
National Instruments |
|
1985 |
2010 / August 2010 |
$1249 (commercial) / $79.95 (student) |
Proprietary |
Graphical and textual (.m file script) programming approaches |
Maple |
Maplesoft |
1980 |
1982 |
2015 / March 4, 2015 |
$2275 (commercial) / $99 (student) |
Proprietary |
Mainly a computer algebra system |
Mathcad |
Parametric Technology Corporation |
1985 |
1986 |
15.0; Prime 3.0 / October 1, 2013 |
$1195 (commercial) / $99 (student) |
Proprietary |
Mainly a computer algebra system |
Mathematica |
Wolfram Research |
1986 |
1988 |
10.3.1 (December 2015 (2015-12)) [±] |
Free (Raspberry Pi[3]), $2495 (commercial) / $145 (student) / $295 (personal)[4] |
Proprietary |
also computer algebra system |
MATLAB |
MathWorks |
the late 1970s |
|
2015a |
$2650 (standard) / $625 (education) |
Proprietary |
Numerical computation and simulation with extended 2D/3D visualization. |
Maxima |
MIT Project MAC and Bill Schelter et al. |
1967 |
1982 |
5.28.0 / August 27, 2012 |
Free |
GPL |
Mainly a computer algebra system |
MLAB |
Civilized Software, Inc. |
1970 (in SAIL), 1985 (in C) |
1972 (on DEC-10), 1988 (on PCs), 1993 (on MACs) |
2015 |
$2250 (standard) / $50 (student) |
Proprietary |
Numerical and Statistical computation for Scientific Applications, e.g. Chemical Kinetics. ODE Solving and Curve-Fitting. Symbolic Differentiation, Survival Analysis, Cluster Analysis, 2D/3D Graphics. |
GNU Data Language |
Marc Schellens |
|
2004 |
0.9.1 / 2011 |
Free |
GPL |
Aimed as a drop-in replacement for IDL/PV-WAVE |
GNU Octave |
John W. Eaton |
1988 |
1993 |
4.0.0 (May 29, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-29)) [±] |
Free |
GPL |
General numerical computing package with lots of extension modules. Syntax mostly compatible with MATLAB |
Origin |
OriginLab |
|
1991 |
9.1 SR0 / Oct. 2013 |
$1095 (std.)/$1800 (Pro)
$550 (std., academic)
$850 (Pro, academic)
$69/yr. (Pro, student) |
Proprietary |
Integrated data analysis graphing software for science and engineering. Flexible multi-layer graphing framework. 2D, 3D and statistical graph types. Built-in digitizing tool. Analysis with auto recalculation and report generation. Built-in scripting and programming languages. |
Perl Data Language |
Karl Glazebrook |
late 1990s |
c. 1997 |
2.012 / 14 June 2015; 41 days ago |
Free |
Artistic License |
Used for astrophysics, solar physics, oceanography, biophysics, and simulation. 2D plotting via PGPLOT, PLPlot bindings; 3D via GL. |
PSPP |
Ben Pfaff |
1990s |
1990s |
0.8.4 / September 27, 2014 |
Free |
GPL v.3 or later |
FOSS alternative to IBM SPSS. Analysis of sampled data, frequencies, cross-tabs comparison of means (t-tests and one-way ANOVA); linear regression, logistic regression, reliability (Cronbach's Alpha, not failure or Weibull), and re-ordering data, non-parametric tests, factor analysis, cluster analysis, principal components analysis, chi-square analysis and more |
R |
R Foundation |
1997 |
1997 |
3.2.1 / June 18, 2015 |
Free |
GPL |
Primarily for statistics, but there are many interfaces to open-source numerical software |
SageMath |
William Stein |
|
2005 |
7.1 (20 March 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-20)) [±][5] |
Free |
GPL |
Programmable, includes computer algebra, 2D+3D plotting. Interfaces to many open-source and proprietary software. Web based interface HTTP or HTTPS |
SAS |
Anthony Barr and James Goodnight |
1966 |
1972 |
9.4 / July 10, 2014 |
Not free |
Proprietary |
|
DataMelt |
S.Chekanov (jwork.org) |
2005 |
2005 |
1.0 / 2013 |
Free |
Free for non-commercial use |
mathematics, symbolic calculations, algebra, data analysis, data mining, interactive 2D/3D graphics, Java scriptable, used for science and engineering, Cross-platform (written in Java) |
S-Lang |
John E. Davis |
|
1992 |
2.2.0 / 2009 |
Free |
GPL, Artistic License (1.x only) |
Available as a standalone (slsh) and embedded interpreter (jed, slrn, ...) |
Scilab |
Scilab Enterprises Was:Inria |
1990 |
1994 |
5.5.2 / April 1, 2015 |
Free |
CeCILL license |
Open source, community supported. Programmable, direct support of 2D+3D plotting. Interfaces to many other software packages. Interfacing to external modules written in C, Java, Python or other languages. Language syntax similar to MATLAB. Used for numerical computing in engineering and physics. |
SPSS |
Normal H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull |
|
1968 |
22.0 / August 13, 2013 |
Not free |
Proprietary |
|
Sysquake |
Calerga |
|
1998 |
5.0 / 2013 |
free / $2500 (Pro, commercial) / $1000 (Pro, academic) |
Proprietary |
interactive graphics |
TK Solver |
Universal Technical Systems, Inc. |
late 1970s |
1982 |
5.0.141 / 2011 |
$399 commercial / $49 (student) |
Proprietary |
Numerical computation and rule-based application development |
VisSim |
Visual Solutions |
|
1989 |
7.0a / 2008 |
$495-$2800 (commercial)
free view only version
$50-$250/free v3.0 (academic) |
Proprietary |
Visual Language for simulation and Model Based Design. Used in business, science and engineering. Performs complex scalar or matrix based ODE solving with parametric optimization. Has 2D and 3D plotting, 3D animation, and state transition built in. |
Yorick |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
2.1.06 / April 17, 2010 |
Free |
GPL |
Open source. Programmable, callable 2D+3D plotting. Language syntax similar to C. Interfacing to other software packages via C calls. |
|
Standalone executables creation support |
Symbolic computation support |
OOP support |
GUI creation support |
Multi-dimensional arrays as primitive data type |
Centralized extension library website |
Can call code in other languages |
Can be called from other languages |
Analytica |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
COM, Excel |
Excel, COM, .NET |
Dyalog APL |
Yes[7] |
Yes |
Yes[8] |
Win32, .NET, WPF, HTML/JS |
Yes |
Yes |
COM, .NET, WebServices, Shared Libraries, DLLs, NAG, R, JavaScript[9] |
COM, .NET, WebServices[9] |
J |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Javascript |
Javascript |
Julia |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
C/C++ |
Maple |
No |
Yes |
Yes[10] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[11] |
C, C#, Fortran |
MATLAB,[12] Excel,[13] VisualBasic, Java, and C[14] |
Mathematica |
Yes[15] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[16] |
Java, .NET, C++, Fortran, CUDA, OpenCL, R |
|
MATLAB |
with extension[27] |
with extension library[28] |
Yes[29] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[30] |
|
.NET,[32] Java,[33] Excel[34] |
MLAB |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
GNU Data Language |
No |
No |
Yes |
GUI Widgets since v.0.9 but still incomplete |
Yes |
No |
C, Python |
Python |
GNU Octave |
Yes with mkoctfile |
only with GiNaC extension |
Yes[35] |
GUI Octave code can be used[36] |
Yes |
Yes[37] |
C++, Fortran,[38] Perl,[39] Tcl[40] |
Java,[41] Perl,[39] C++[42] |
PDL |
Yes[43] |
No |
Yes[44] |
Yes[45] |
Yes |
Yes[46] |
C via perlXS; C, Python, F77, etc. via Inline |
Perl, C[47] |
R |
No |
Yes and extended via Ryacas package |
Yes[48] |
Via the tcltk library |
Yes |
Yes[49] |
|
|
Sage |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes[55] |
Many languages[56][57][58] |
Yes (any language that can call Python) |
SAS |
No |
No |
DS2 and SCL |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
No |
DataMelt |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Java |
Yes (any language that can call Java) |
TK Solver |
with extension |
No |
Yes |
with extension |
Yes |
Yes |
.NET Excel |