# Datatables Reviews **Vendor:** DataTables **Category:** [Other Web Frameworks Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About Datatables Datatables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a tool, build upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, that adds all of these advanced features to any HTML table. It helps for adding sorting and paging and filtering abilities. ## Datatables Reviews ### 1. DataTables with Bootstrap 4 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel J. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Datatables?** DataTables makes it easy to create a grid that looks good and brings a lot of functionality with the ability to extend the DataTable with their plugins. My favorite feature is the ability to use server-side AJAX calls for the interaction (sorting, paging, searching). **What do you dislike about Datatables?** There isn't much to dislike about DataTables. Having all the extensions added to DataTables can make the file size quite large but most of those features are great to have with DataTables. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a grid with the functionality that DataTables provides. DataTables can be skinned with Bootstrap 4 and easily integrated into my current solution because of the server-side processing feature. ### 2. Go-to tool for large tables on the web! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Beate D. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Datatables is my go-to tool for setting up large tables on websites for our clients. Table data can be provided in many ways, e.g., via HTML, via Ajax calls. Extensions allow additional functionalities such as setting up advanced queries (SearchBuilder), downloading the table data as Excel spreadsheet, CSV etc., editing the data (Editor), etc. In addition, many different table styles are supported and can be customized, allowing a consistent look and adjustments to client requirements. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** I can honestly not think about anything. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** In some of our data management web applications, users have to be able to find and edit specific data points or construct data queries efficiently. Datatables solves this problem very well. ### 3. the perfect plugin for iterating with tables **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clemente N. | web master, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Datatables?** When I discovered datatables, now a couple of years ago, I was amazed! It allows you to create iterazinones in the tables, in a simple and complete way. You can feed txt files, json or simply html tables, perhaps extrapolated with server-side programming language, and he creates tables with a search engine included, with the possibility of sorting, you can insert buttons and program them to do what you want you. And not only that: there are many features, all present and explained with examples on the official website, which I still have to implement. Depending on your needs, you will find the right solution. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** all beautiful things also have some patches. In my opinion, perhaps, the search for advanced features is a bit complex. Let me explain: the site is complete with everything, but perhaps to look for advanced features, it is a bit problematic. Also, having server-side language, javascript and advanced functionality coexisting is not so immediate. But it is feasible, depends on the skill of the programmer. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** use datatables whenever you are dealing with tables. Look for advanced features, because surely there is the answer to your need. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems solved are a myriad: before discovering datatables, I tried to get its functionality, mixing javascript of all kinds, various plugins, without talking about server-side calls ... well here it's all included. the main use I made, was the design of a cms that allows the management of all web applications, which I realize. a revolution! ### 4. Best tabular plugin with jquery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil S. | Full Stack Developer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** The best thing about datatables is it is easy to integrate and can customize as per requirement. With the help of jquery it is much more easy to use. It can handle large amount of data fluently and it just don't increate site loading time and paginate large data. Searching option is also best among all other features of datatables, you can search throughout the table or you can add for separate column wise. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Datatables is already much more powerfull plugin. but I got issue few times with the styling to table and making responsive to it. While exporting large data sometimes crashes the website. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** I am using datatables for almost 3 years now, and I got no issue with it. I didn't found any best alternative to datatables and it is working very well. All features datatables are providing are free, so I always recommends to other developers to use datatables, also its integration with Laravel framework is also easy. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Generally We use datatables in admin panel of our websites, and we use it for listing entries, users, products, and from there we not only lists data but also update data using post requests on to it. It has easy to export table data inbuilt functionality, which makes my life so easy while developing. ### 5. Bloated and Complicated **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdullah R. | Application Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Datatable would be very nice for project with simple usages, like small tables with very common needs. Like most solutions, it allows people to quickly setup nice look tables. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** There are several problems with datatable. When you try to do some customization , the code started to look like alien language. Simple task like custom row coloring can be daunting. There are also performance issue on big tables. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** jqGrid is good alternative. it handles well with the big amount od data **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to display various tables of tickets or tasks. This is quick out of the box solution. ### 6. A very good and solid jQuery Datatable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony v. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I love the support and the API. DataTables.net is a core part of the product that I provide to my clients. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** This product is feature complete. They also provide a Editing control that I have not chosen to make use of. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** Very basic implementations of DataTables.net can be implemented by even the most basic of Web Developers. It only requires two includes and 3 lines of code. More experience is required for the additional functionality but there are piles of examples, **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed a good solid and easy to integrate Table control that would fit in with JQueryUI. It does what it says and makes that part of my application look good and function well. ### 7. A great option for building tables in record time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** The possibility of building improved tables with options such as filters, orders, paging and responsive design in a very short time. In addition, you can customize all of this with different options, such as choosing which columns can be sorted or filtered between other alternatives. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** The documentation is not very clear or intuitive, so you will have to search a bit on the Net to find out some answers. Datatables are not easy to use, so the first time can be a little tedious. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** It requires a bit of time to start of, but if you need to work with reports it will be a good inversion of time. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using them to show data of reports to the customers and allow them to interact in real time filtering o searching a specific term in all the data that is displayed in the table. ### 8. Tables on steroids! For Free! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edgar R. | Consultor en comunicación y tecnologías de información, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Datatables is FREE! but not's not all! It works great an implementation is really a breeze. No more static tables on your html pages, and setup is pretty straightfoward. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Not knowing more javascript, but that is not a problem of Datatables nor did it keep me from not using this great app! **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** Free open source project with plenty of documentation for easy setup. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making static data on html interactive with our visitors online, plus it works on mobile devices. It's an open source project but the documentation is quite complete, and it can grow depending on the needs of your site. But not only that, Datatables also allows to customize the looks of your tables, I greatly recommend it. ### 9. Awesome. Simplifies so many usecases **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** After processing and summarizing large amounts of data, I often need to display, well, tables of data. Datatables does such a better job than just raw html tables in 90% of cases. It's especially great for getting a MVP of what you want to display and functionality before you even worry about tweaking. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Well, it's a lot better than raw html tables, but sometimes I do have to do some work to get the actual tweaks to work exactly as I need to. I think this is definitely an aspect of how many features that datatables has though. It can be tweaked in so many ways, that you have to specify exactly how you want it and that takes some lines of code to do it. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** You have to use it so you can save lots of time for other things! **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I usually can quickly show summarizations of large raw tables of data using Datatables which is exactly what I need. Datatables saves me time doing repetitive jobs which means I can get more done. It's the right tool for the job for 95% of usecases. ### 10. Data Tables for strategic reports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I am using data tables to view the strategical data reports of algorithmic trading. Their responsiveness is awesome and they take none or very less time to render and to show the data. We can also apply filters and search any column based on the value provided in the search textfield. Its UI and design is awesome we can make any row clickable. It can be implemented in few lines of codes and it is available for many supportive frontend languages and frameworks like html, bootstrap and angular data tables. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** It requires little bit of programming languages knowledge to render the data dynamically and to integrate this in the frontend. For large images as column to display the performance is affecting. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** Need to integrate more reporting related to custom paging implementation in angular js and also need to support the rendering of base64 image. Overall rendering performance is very good. I have tested it for 104 pages with each page having 20 records. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** To show the real time algorithmic trading data to the decision makers to work on the stock markets. It is also used to show the real time reporting of the companies various share trading in the form of report. We can also filter the data date wise and any attribute wise. ### 11. Your web tables, on RedBull **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I very much like the simplicity of using it on my web apps. Create a table markup, provide a datasource, initiate the table using jQuery, and viola! A full-pledged table in your web app, with sort, search, and pagination features ready. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** At the moment, it doesn't yet have the Excel like column filter. It would be very much appreciated if it got included. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** It really helps fasten development time, and the paid features are really worth the price. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing the user with easy to use and comprehensible way of showing data. ### 12. It is just best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** You can integrate it with any technology and also with server side and client side. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Documentation can be nicer, sometimes I have seen my juniors struggling with it **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like every problem - I have used datatables in many of my developed websites ### 13. Very well written **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Desiree B. | Nanny, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I love that it’s fast and flexible. There is nothing like it on the market. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** There is nothing I don’t like about Datatables!!! I’m very impressed **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was having problems with keeping my events in order. Daratables solved that problem. ### 14. Great tool for sorting tabular data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Very easy to incorporate. The documentation for this product is great and their website provides wonderful examples for incorporating the plugin and customizing it for your website. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Some responsive features are not as easy to use sometimes or don't behave as always expected or how you feel it might intuitively work. **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** Great free version of the product. Does what we need it to do. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sorting and searching tabular data. This has helped us make non-responsive sites responsive rather easily,. ### 15. Excellent Programming Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I enjoy being able to use this tool for older browsers and the functionality it provides when I’m creating CSV files. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** I wish datatables was included beyond the free trial period. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use data tables to organize and display info from from our data set. It helps us compare and analyze our data. ### 16. Great table framework for javascript based apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Misha B. | Solutions Architect, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Very nice built in table utilities such as filtering, sorting, layouts, and templating **What do you dislike about Datatables?** The documentation isn't the best, and it could be easier to apply a layout or custom features to a row or cell object **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using datatables to display data within a website, utilizing ReactJS as the front end. ### 17. DataTables **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, build upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, that adds all of these advanced features to any HTML table. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** There aren’t many this that I dislike about datatables **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps to organize my html ### 18. Great jquery plugin to improve UX quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Simple to use, tons of features - works with jquery. **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Nothing much to write here. What kind of a monster complains about open source? **Recommendations to others considering Datatables:** Do it - it's the best of the similar plugins. **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've simplified our dashboard UX quite a bit. ### 19. Great for displaying tabular data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** Great for displaying tabular data easily **What do you dislike about Datatables?** Documentation is a little light in some places **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Datatables to display lots of data about degree programs on a client’s website. It was easy to implement and user-friendly on the front end. ### 20. Okay but not the greatest **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Datatables?** I like the ease and functionality of the system **What do you dislike about Datatables?** I dislike the graphics and it just kinda boring **What problems is Datatables solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves a few but not as many as we would like - [View Datatables pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/datatables/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-27+01%3A17%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9d7c1583-d2a9-4e10-9d2d-4195f93d45cf&secure%5Btoken%5D=fa5c506175dcfa1f1f3e741a88f85ea2aeb190c1dce71a3ea83288a2b6853cdf&format=llm_user) ## Top Datatables Alternatives - [handlebars](https://www.g2.com/products/handlebars/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (12 reviews) - [Ruby on Rails](https://www.g2.com/products/ruby-on-rails/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (73 reviews) - [IHP](https://www.g2.com/products/ihp/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (175 reviews)