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Introducing KeyLines 3.0: Supercharge your Charts with WebGL

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We’re pleased to announce the release of KeyLines 3.0 to all of our customers and evaluators. This latest version includes significant performance enhancements, making KeyLines the most powerful graph visualization toolkit around.

Highlights of KeyLines 3.0:

  • A new WebGL rendering engine for faster, smoother visualizations
  • Clever code optimizations to make your graph functions run up to 50x faster
  • A new AngularJS directive and improved documentation
  • 9 new demos to accelerate your project

Performance: See Bigger Graphs, More Quickly

KeyLines has always been a high performance toolkit but, increasingly, you have been asking us to help you with larger networks. To help you manage the explosive growth in your data volumes, KeyLines 3.0 harnesses the latest web technologies:

A Powerful WebGL Renderer

Since its inception, KeyLines has mostly relied on the HTML5 Canvas component to render charts in the browser. Whilst this technology is impressively fast, it can struggle with very large, dense networks.

Our new WebGL renderer offloads much of the heavy lifting to your machine’s GPU. The result is a blisteringly fast visualization experience.


KeyLines’ WebGL renderer manages a smooth 60 FPS when panning around a chart with 100,000 elements, compared to 3 FPS with HTML5 Canvas

Note: our WebGL renderer is initially released in Alpha form. This means we need your feedback to prepare the functionality for general release. Make sure your voice is heard! Send your thoughts to support@keylines.com.

Optimized Code for 50x Faster Calculations

KeyLines graph functions are the ‘engine room’ of our code: where you explore and analyze the connected structure of your data. This release includes a number of clever optimizations, such as dynamic cache construction; API calls are up to 50x faster than before.


Repeated neighbors calls in the graph API show a 50x improvement
More Controls, Better Controls

We’ve made a number of smaller enhancements to help you build better applications more quickly.

New Time Bar Events

Next time you check the KeyLines API, you will find a number of new events to give you more flexibility when designing your Time Bar deployment.

Navigation Controls

Perhaps our most requested minor feature to date! You can now move the location of the KeyLines navigation controls from the top left hand corner.

Before and after: Move the navigation controls to wherever makes sense for your app.

A New Angular Directive

Thanks to your comments and feedback, we have released a new version of our AngularJS directive. You can see this in action in our updated ‘Angular: Advanced’ and ‘Angular: Basics’ demos.

Head to the Documentation > Angular Directive tab for extensive documentation on how the directive works, and how to start a managed migration to the new version.

New Demos

Our demo applications are fun to use, but also provide great inspiration for your own KeyLines deployments. This release includes 8 brand-new demos and enhancements to many others:


Data Breaches: Explore relations between attackers and their targets

Malware Tracker: Find trends and outliers in malware data

Exploit Kits: Reveal common vulnerabilities used by exploit kits

Credit card fraud: Investigate the source of credit card fraud

Neo4j & Time Bar: Use the Time Bar to query a Neo4j database

Insurance fraud: Check insurance claims for fraudulent activity

Time Bar Events: Experiment with the new mouse and touch events

Angular Basics: Bind events to the chart using AngularJS

Angular Advanced: How to filter chart items using AngularJS

Bug fixes and improvements

Of course, the release also includes a healthy batch of minor improvements and bug fixes. Take a look at our change log (Documentation > Change Log) for details.

Try KeyLines 3.0 for yourself

Already have an account for the KeyLines software development kit? Just log in to see the new functionality in action. Alternatively, you can request a free trial.

As always, don’t forget to tell us what you think. Send us your questions, opinions and suggestions – we would love to hear from you!

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