IDX has been busy developing a plant data historian that bridges the gap between low-cost simple file logging and the very powerful scalable enterprise-class historians available from OSIsoft, Wonderware and others. The IDX8 Historian is a module that is part of the growing portfolio of IDX8 – a framework for plant data integration and performance monitoring.
It supports some data compression algorithms, handles buffering when the historian is temporarily offline (stopped, or network outage), and can scale from a few tags to many thousands.
It makes use of Microsoft SQL Server Express, which is free, but for more demanding applications can be upgraded to a full Microsoft SQL Server.
To be released on 1st May 2012.
