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ggcorrplot vs ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus

A side-by-side editorial comparison of ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

ggcorrplot vs ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus: at a glance

FeatureggcorrplotManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus
SectorAnalyticsAnalytics
Velocity score2.52.5
Sparks · 30d00
Top themescorrelation, r, ggplot2, visualizationad-backup, entra-id, disaster-recovery, cloud-storage
Last editorial update3d ago1h ago
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What is ggcorrplot?

ggcorrplot came back after four years and found its significance markers had been lying

ggcorrplot draws correlation matrices in ggplot2 with optional significance marking and hierarchical reordering. It sat untouched from late 2022 until mid-2026, then shipped 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 sixteen days apart. Between them they added the display options users had been requesting since 2016 and repaired a set of bugs where hc.order = TRUE silently changed which cells were marked significant.

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What is ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

RecoveryManager Plus keeps widening its backup coverage across the Microsoft identity estate.

RecoveryManager Plus is a backup-and-recovery tool for Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and it is the most feature-active of the ManageEngine set here. Recent builds add real backup coverage — AD sites and subnets, Entra ID local admin passwords, S3-compatible repositories, SIEM audit forwarding, and Entra ID BitLocker recovery keys — alongside CVE patches and RemCom agent hardening. Build 6322 is the quietest of the run: a single fix for restarts triggered by an outdated ExchangeOnlineManagement PowerShell module during Microsoft 365 enumeration.

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ggcorrplot vs ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus: editorial side-by-side

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2.5

ggcorrplot came back after four years and found its significance markers had been lying

◆ Current state

ggcorrplot draws correlation matrices in ggplot2 with optional significance marking and hierarchical reordering. It sat untouched from late 2022 until mid-2026, then shipped 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 sixteen days apart. Between them they added the display options users had been requesting since 2016 and repaired a set of bugs where hc.order = TRUE silently changed which cells were marked significant.

◆ Where it's heading

Both releases chase the same target: parity with the older corrplot package inside a ggplot2 object. Significance stars appended to coefficient labels, circle scaling, decimal control, then boxed cells and glyphs sized by absolute correlation — these are corrplot's visual vocabulary reimplemented where they can be composed with other ggplot2 layers. The bug fixes point the other way, at foundations: p-values matched to cells by name rather than row position, clustering computed on the unrounded matrix, tl.col actually applied.

◆ Prediction

With the corrplot look largely reproduced and the correctness backlog cleared, the remaining gap is the mixed upper/lower display corrplot supports; that is the natural next argument if the current release pace holds.

M2.5

RecoveryManager Plus keeps widening its backup coverage across the Microsoft identity estate.

◆ Current state

RecoveryManager Plus is a backup-and-recovery tool for Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and it is the most feature-active of the ManageEngine set here. Recent builds add real backup coverage — AD sites and subnets, Entra ID local admin passwords, S3-compatible repositories, SIEM audit forwarding, and Entra ID BitLocker recovery keys — alongside CVE patches and RemCom agent hardening. Build 6322 is the quietest of the run: a single fix for restarts triggered by an outdated ExchangeOnlineManagement PowerShell module during Microsoft 365 enumeration.

◆ Where it's heading

The direction is coverage expansion: methodically extending what can be backed up and restored across on-prem AD and Entra ID, while broadening cloud storage targets and operational integrations. The dependence on Microsoft's own PowerShell modules is the cost of that coverage, and 6322 shows where it bites — a stale module on the customer's side takes the product down mid-enumeration. Feature builds and pure-fix builds alternate at roughly a two-month cadence, so a single-issue build reads as a gap between feature cycles rather than a slowdown.

◆ Prediction

Expect continued expansion of Entra ID and cloud-native backup coverage and more storage-target options, with security patches folded into each build; the next build carrying a Features section is due on the cadence this feed has held.

Alternatives to ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus

Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either ggcorrplot or ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus.

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Recent activity from ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 1d agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusFixes restarts from an outdated Exchange Online PowerShell module
  2. 25d agoggcorrplotggcorrplot 0.3.0 adds boxed cells and correlation-sized squares
  3. 1mo agoggcorrplotggcorrplot 0.2.0 fixes significance markers broken by hc.order
  4. 2mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusPatches CVE-2026-11374 in cross-product SSO
  5. 2mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds AD site/subnet and Entra ID password backup
  6. 4mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusHardens RemCom agent against CVE-2026-2740
  7. 6mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds S3-compatible backup repositories
  8. 9mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds SIEM/syslog audit-log forwarding
  9. 3y agoggcorrplotggcorrplot 0.1.4
  10. 6y agoggcorrplotggcorrplot 0.1.3
  11. 7y agoggcorrplotggcorrplot 0.1.2
  12. 10y agoggcorrplotggcorrplot's first release: correlograms in ggplot2

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 2.5 vs 2.5, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is ggcorrplot better than ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ggcorrplot and ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 2.5 vs 2.5, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to ggcorrplot?

Top ggcorrplot alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ggcorrplot alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ggcorrplot for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

Top ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/manageengine-recoverymanager-plus for the full list with editorial commentary on each.