prashant_kr (7/31/2014)

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This is the BIRT blog, there they mentioned about BIRT,not the comparison between these two.

Of course, there are also some differences between these products. Here are some obvious ones which do not directly impact the functionality of the report:

BIRT is open source under the Eclipse Public License - Reporting Services is closed proprietary source software, subject to its own product license

BIRT is based on java technology - Reporting Services is built on .NET technology

BIRT has jdbc database connectivity - Reporting Services has ODBC and ADO .NET connectivity

Syntactically, BIRT expressions are Javascript expression - Reporting Services expression are Visual Basic .NET expressions

BIRT does *NOT* have crosstabs as of yet - Reporting Services has of course

BIRT datasources are defined on the report level - Reporting Services datasources are defined on the Report Server and/or Project level (wich I think is much more convenient than in BIRT)

A lot of output formats are available for Reporting Services - BIRT can only output HTML or PDF (I'm really missing an XML output format)