Industrial historians compared: 40 systems, what they cost and where they fit
Enterprise archives, SCADA-embedded historians, cloud services and open-source databases, set side by side. Prices are shown with the quality of their source, because most vendors publish none.
- Systems
- 40
- Price data points
- 16
- Quote-only vendors
- 24
- Sources
- 140
- Updated
- Oct 2026
Overview
Five kinds of system, one confusing market
16 systems
Enterprise process historians
Plant-to-enterprise archives with an asset model on top.
9 systems
SCADA-embedded
Historians that ship inside a SCADA or HMI platform.
5 systems
Cloud and IIoT
Managed time-series services and industrial data platforms.
8 systems
Open-source and developer TSDBs
Time-series databases you assemble into a historian.
2 systems
Context (not historians)
Layers that add context to a historian; not historians themselves.
The honest summary: for a single plant, Ignition or Canary usually cost a fraction of PI. For a multi-site, regulated estate, PI is still the safe default and the expensive one. Everything in between is a question of who already owns your SCADA and how much engineering your team can spare.
The market at a glance
What the 40 systems have in common, and how little most vendors say about price.
40 systems · one tile each
24 of 40 won't tell you a price
Enterprise process historians
13 of 16 quote only
SCADA-embedded
5 of 9 quote only
Cloud and IIoT
3 of 5 quote only
Open-source and developer TSDBs
2 of 8 quote only
Context (not historians)
1 of 2 quote only
The vendors with the biggest estates say the least: 13 of 16 enterprise historians are quote only, against 2 of 8 open-source databases. Hover a tile for its name.
How the 40 are sold and run
Licensing, deployment and owners
Licence model
Systems offering each; some offer several.
- Ask sales16
- Subscription14
- Open source7
- Perpetual5
- Usage-based4
- Bundled2
- With hardware1
Where it runs
Systems offering each; some offer several.
- On-prem31
- Cloud22
- Edge11
- Hybrid3
- EU-headquartered vendors
- 8
- Owners with more than one system
- Siemens 3 · AVEVA 2 · AspenTech (Emerson) 2 · Honeywell 2
- Ownership changing: deal announced, not closed
- 2
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40 of 40 systems
Filters and results
Type
Deployment
Licensing
Price visibility
Vendor
| System | Storage | Deployment | Licensing | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF) AVEVA (Schneider Electric) | Proprietary archive, swinging-door compression | On-prem, Hybrid, Cloud | Subscription | Quote only | |
AVEVA CONNECT data services AVEVA | Managed cloud time-series store | Cloud | Subscription | Quote only | |
AVEVA Historian (ex-Wonderware) AVEVA | Proprietary block storage + SQL Server config | On-prem, Edge | Subscription | Quote only | |
AspenTech InfoPlus.21 (IP.21) AspenTech (Emerson) | Proprietary in-memory + history repositories | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
AspenTech Inmation AspenTech (Emerson) | MongoDB-based | On-prem, Hybrid | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Emerson DeltaV Continuous Historian Emerson | Proprietary | On-prem | Bundled | Quote only | |
Honeywell Uniformance PHD Honeywell | Proprietary + RDBMS config | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Honeywell Uniformance Cloud Historian Honeywell | Cloud data lake | Cloud | Subscription | Quote only | |
Proficy Historian TPG (ex-GE Vernova) | Proprietary compressed archives | On-prem, Cloud | Perpetual, Subscription | Quote only | |
FactoryTalk Historian SE / ME Rockwell Automation | PI-based, licensed from OSIsoft | On-prem, Edge | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Siemens SIMATIC Process Historian Siemens EU vendor | Microsoft SQL Server 2019 | On-prem | Bundled | Quote only | |
Yokogawa Exaquantum Yokogawa | Proprietary + SQL Server | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
ABB 800xA History ABB | Proprietary | On-prem | Ask sales | Partly published | |
Canary System Canary Labs | Proprietary NoSQL daily files, lossless | On-prem, Cloud, Hybrid | Perpetual, Subscription | Price published | |
dataPARC Historian (PARCserver) Capstone / dataPARC | Proprietary | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Factry Historian Factry (Belgium) EU vendor | InfluxDB + PostgreSQL | On-prem, Cloud | Subscription | Partly published | |
Ignition Historian (Core + SQL) Inductive Automation | Embedded QuestDB (Core) or external SQL | On-prem, Edge, Cloud | Perpetual | Price published | |
ICONICS Hyper Historian / GENESIS v11 Mitsubishi Electric (MEIDS) | Proprietary, swinging door | On-prem, Cloud | Ask sales | Quote only | |
COPA-DATA zenon Historian COPA-DATA (Austria) EU vendorLightly checked | Proprietary + SQL export | On-prem, Edge | Ask sales | Quote only | |
VTScada Trihedral (Delta Electronics) | Proprietary or SQL | On-prem | Perpetual | Price published | |
Siemens WinCC OA / Unified archiving Siemens EU vendorLightly checked | Proprietary / SQL | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Schneider EcoStruxure Geo SCADA Schneider Electric EU vendorLightly checked | Proprietary | On-prem | Ask sales | Quote only | |
Tatsoft FrameworX (Canary OEM) Tatsoft | Canary Historian, 500 tags included | On-prem | Perpetual | Partly published | |
Beckhoff TwinCAT Database Server Beckhoff EU vendor | Writes to SQL, NoSQL or InfluxDB | Edge | Ask sales | Partly published | |
PTC Kepware + ThingWorx PTC (Schneider deal pending) Deal pending | DataLogger to SQL; ThingWorx has its own stores | On-prem, Cloud | Ask sales | Quote only | |
AWS IoT SiteWise Amazon | Managed time-series store, hot and cold tiers | Cloud, Edge | Usage-based | Price published | |
Azure Data Explorer / Fabric Eventhouse Microsoft | Kusto columnar engine | Cloud | Usage-based | Price published | |
Cognite Data Fusion Cognite (Schneider deal pending) Deal pending | Managed time-series store + knowledge graph | Cloud | Subscription | Quote only | |
Siemens Insights Hub Siemens EU vendorLightly checked | Managed cloud | Cloud | Subscription | Quote only | |
Litmus Edge Litmus Lightly checked | Embedded time-series store | Edge | Subscription | Quote only | |
TDengine Historian (TSDB + IDMP) TDengine (Taos Data) | Columnar TSDB, one table per device | On-prem, Cloud, Edge | Open source, Subscription | Partly published | |
Apache IoTDB / TimechoDB Apache / Timecho | TsFile columnar | On-prem, Edge, Cloud | Open source, Ask sales | Quote only | |
InfluxDB 3 InfluxData | Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion | On-prem, Cloud, Edge | Open source, Subscription | Partly published | |
TimescaleDB / Tiger Cloud Tiger Data | PostgreSQL extension, hypertables | On-prem, Cloud | Open source, Usage-based | Price published | |
QuestDB QuestDB | Columnar, SIMD | On-prem, Cloud | Open source, Ask sales | Quote only | |
KX kdb+ / KDB-X KX | In-memory + on-disk columnar, q language | On-prem, Cloud | Subscription | Partly published | |
CrateDB CrateDB (Austria) EU vendorLightly checked | Lucene-based, distributed SQL | On-prem, Cloud | Open source, Usage-based | Price published | |
VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus VictoriaMetrics / CNCF | Custom compressed blocks | On-prem, Cloud | Open source, Ask sales | Partly published | |
Opto 22 groov (EPIC / RIO) Opto 22 Lightly checked | Local logging, MQTT out | Edge | With hardware | Price published | |
Seeq / TrendMiner Seeq / TrendMiner | No own historian | Cloud, On-prem | Subscription | Quote only |
Pricing evidence
Every published number we found, labelled by who published it. Yellow marks sources with a stake in the answer.
Published starting prices
The price ladder, on a log scale
Canary, subscription
$3,000 per yearVendor list price
Ignition Historian suite
$3,500 one-offVendor list price · unlimited tags
VTScada, 5k I/O
$4,295 one-offThird-party
Canary, perpetual
$7,400 one-offVendor list price · 3,500 tags, plus $1,330 care
TDengine, 5k tags
$9,000 per yearVendor claim
Factry FactryOS
€15,000 per yearVendor list price · historian on request
AVEVA PI, 5k tags
over $25,000 per yearCompetitor's estimate
Yellow marks a price from a source with a stake in the answer. One-off licences and yearly fees share the axis on purpose: it shows where each vendor starts the conversation, not what five years costs (see the cost estimate below). Euros are not converted. Quote-only systems are absent because there is nothing to plot.
17 data points
What anyone has published
| System | What the number is | Price | How far to trust it | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF) | AVEVA PI Flex (public-sector contract)Flex credits, 3 years | $325,710 | Public contractA real award, not a list | Nov 2023 |
| AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF) | AVEVA PI Flex creditPer credit | $9–15 per credit; top-up $14.44 | Third-partyReseller or review site | 2023–2026 |
| AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF) | AVEVA PI per tag (competitor's comparison)Per tag, annual | Over $25k/yr at 5,000 tags; over $90k/yr at 50,000 | Competitor's estimateBiased source | 2026 |
| AVEVA Historian (ex-Wonderware) | AVEVA Historian, legacy perpetualPerpetual | $5–15k (64 tags); $50–150k (unlimited) | Third-party estimateUnverified | unverified |
| Canary System | Canary, perpetualPerpetual + care | $7,400 + $1,330 care (3,500 tags) | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | Oct 2026 |
| Canary System | Canary, subscriptionAnnual | $3,000/yr | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | Oct 2026 |
| Canary System | Canary Private CloudAnnual + setup | $12,320–58,684/yr (3,500–60,000 tags) + $1,500 setup | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | Oct 2026 |
| Ignition Historian (Core + SQL) | Ignition platform and suitesPerpetual, unlimited tags | Platform $1,200; Historian suite $3,500; Application suite $13,500; TimescaleDB module €3,000 | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | 2026 |
| Factry Historian | Factry FactryOSAnnual per site | From €15,000/yr (single site €15–20k/yr); historian on request | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | 2026 |
| VTScada | VTScadaPerpetual per I/O tier | Free to 50 I/O; $3,395 (1k), $4,295 (5k), $7,195 (50k I/O); bundle $14,795; SupportPlus 15% | Third-partyReseller or review site | Jul 2025 list |
| ABB 800xA History | ABB 800xA History upgrade offerOne-off | $18,500 (offer ended 24 Nov 2024) | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | Nov 2024 |
| TDengine Historian (TSDB + IDMP) | TDengineAnnual per tag count | $9,000 (5k tags), $15,500 (10k), $31,000 (50k); free tier | Vendor claimMarketing, not a quote | 2026 |
| InfluxDB 3 | InfluxDB 3 EnterprisePer vCPU-hour / custom | $0.198 per vCPU-hour; Vendr range $5k–75k/yr | Third-partyReseller or review site | Jul 2026 |
| TimescaleDB / Tiger Cloud | Tiger CloudUsage | $30–36/month compute + $0.177–0.212 per GB-month | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | Aug 2026 |
| AWS IoT SiteWise | AWS IoT SiteWisePer message | $1 per million messages (storage prices conflict between sources) | Vendor list pricePublished by the vendor | 2026 |
| KX kdb+ / KDB-X | KDB-XPer GiB / month | Community free; 32 GiB $1,822.92/month | Third-party estimateUnverified | unverified |
| Market-wide | Proficy, PHD, IP.21, Siemens Process Historian, Exaquantum, ICONICS, dataPARC, Cognite, zenonQuote | No public price | Quote onlyNo public number |
Five-year cost estimate
One plant, about 5,000 tags. An estimate to frame the conversation, not a quote.
Five years · one plant · about 5,000 tags
Rough cost of ownership
Ignition + Historian suite
$5k–$10kplus support
Canary, perpetual
$15k–$25kincluding care
TDengine
about $45kvendor's own estimate
Factry
€75k–€100kbuilt on the FactryOS price; historian on request
AVEVA PI
$125k+competitor's estimate; likely more
Open-source time-series databases: $0 licence, but plan 3–12 person-months of engineering to turn one into a historian.
These are the report authors’ estimates, not quotes. Currencies are as the source gave them and are not converted, so compare bars loosely. PI has no ceiling here because its price grows with tags and modules.
Performance claims
What vendors and testers say their systems handle. Shown for context, not for ranking.
Not comparable
Performance claims, as stated
AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF)
Up to 20 million tags per server
Vendor claim
Canary System
More than 2 million tags
Vendor claim
Ignition Historian (Core + SQL)
About 2 million tags on Ignition 8.3, against about 500,000 before (integrator DMC's claim; the 500,000 baseline is unconfirmed)
Third-party test
ICONICS Hyper Historian / GENESIS v11
Up to 100,000 events per second, uncompressed, on reference hardware
Vendor claim
Yokogawa Exaquantum
600,000 tags per minute
Vendor claim
ABB 800xA History
7,000 values per second, against 2,000 for the earlier information manager
Vendor claim
VTScada
Tested up to 2.5 million tags
Vendor claim
Apache IoTDB / TimechoDB
10 million values per second (SIGMOD paper)
Peer-reviewed paper
Apache IoTDB / TimechoDB
TimechoDB led the benchANT TSBS small category (2025)
Third-party test
Apache IoTDB / TimechoDB
Timecho claims 24.65M IoTps on TPCx-IoT (2025)
Vendor claim
InfluxDB 3
Core 3.45M records/s, Enterprise 1.71M records/s
Competitor's test
Each figure comes from a different test, hardware and data shape. Don’t rank systems by it. Run a proof of concept with your own tags and query load.
Where to start
Which historian for which job
| If you need | Look first at | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Small plant (under 10,000 tags) | Ignition Core Historian | Canary, VTScada |
| Multi-site enterprise process | AVEVA PI | Canary Enterprise, AspenTech IP.21 |
| Regulated pharma (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11) | AVEVA PI + PI Audit Reporter | Siemens Process Historian, zenon, Proficy |
| DCS-centric plant | The DCS's own historian (PHD, Exaquantum, 800xA History, DeltaV, SIMATIC PH) | Forward to PI or Canary for enterprise use |
| IIoT and cloud first | AWS IoT SiteWise or Fabric Eventhouse | Cognite |
| Limited budget, IT-skilled team | TimescaleDB, InfluxDB 3, QuestDB, TDengine | Factry |
| EU vendor preference | Factry (BE), COPA-DATA zenon (AT), Siemens (DE), CrateDB (AT) | Cognite (NO, not EU) |
| Unified namespace (MQTT) | Ignition + MQTT Engine, Canary (Sparkplug B), Factry | HighByte for modelling, on any historian |
Market
What is changing
Fewer, larger vendors
Schneider owns AVEVA and has agreed to buy Cognite and PTC. Emerson owns AspenTech and DeltaV. TPG owns Proficy. Expect overlapping products and roadmap changes.
Move to subscription
AVEVA said in March 2023 that new licences are subscription only. Many projects that would have been PI now look at Canary, Ignition, Factry or TDengine.
UNS and MQTT Sparkplug B
Canary, Factry, Ignition, AVEVA Adapters and TDengine all speak it, and Fabric reads MQTT directly.
Edge plus cloud
Store-and-forward at the edge, long-term analytics in the cloud.
Open storage engines
QuestDB inside Ignition, InfluxDB and PostgreSQL inside Factry, SQL Server inside Siemens: less lock-in than a closed archive.
Industrial AI and MCP
AVEVA has a PI MCP server planned, Cognite a preview, TDengine an agent runtime. Mostly preview: ask for reference customers.
Advice
What to do with this
- Running PI today? Don't migrate for price alone. Get a written multi-year Flex quote, get Canary and Ignition quotes for the same tag count, and move only the sites that barely use AF and event frames.
- New single plant in Poland or the EU: Ignition 8.3 or Canary, MQTT Sparkplug B for a unified namespace, data on-prem or in an EU cloud region.
- Regulated pharma site: PI, Siemens Process Historian or zenon. Ask for the validation package and audit-trail functions. Don't use a raw open-source database as the GxP system of record without a validated layer.
- Strong IT team, small budget: TimescaleDB or InfluxDB 3 with Telegraf or Node-RED and Grafana, or buy Factry.
- Vendor with a new owner (Proficy, Cognite, PTC/Kepware, AspenTech): write price limits, support-term guarantees and data-export rights into the contract.
- Security: subscribe to CISA and vendor advisories, keep historians in a DMZ (ISA/IEC 62443 zones and conduits), and update PI to CONNECT Agent, FactoryTalk Historian SE and ICONICS Hyper Historian to the fixed versions.
Read this first
Limits of the evidence
- Most enterprise vendors don't publish prices. Third-party and competitor numbers can be wrong or biased: TDengine, Transpara, Flow Software, MachineCDN and Basekick all sell competing products.
- VTScada's 2025 prices come from three third-party sites; the official July 2025 list could not be opened.
- SiteWise storage prices differ between sources.
- Factry's €15,000 a year is for FactryOS; the historian itself is on request.
- The Schneider–Cognite and Schneider–PTC deals have not closed.
- Several systems were not checked in depth: zenon, WinCC OA, Geo SCADA, Litmus, Opto 22, CrateDB, Insights Hub prices, Google MDE, Prediktor and Chinese DCS historians.
- Benchmarks come from different tests and are not comparable. Run your own proof of concept.
140 sources
Where the figures come from
AVEVA PI System (Data Archive + AF) (13)
- [16] OSIsoft
- [17] Schneider Electric
- [24] Factry Historian vs AVEVA PI System: flat site fee vs Flex subscription - DEV Community
- [25] AVEVA PI System
- [26] AVEVA Unveils Expanded Industrial AI Software Portfolio at AVEVA World 2026 < IT·Gaming < 기사본문 - The Elec Inc.
- [27] Manufacturing - AVEVA announces new product innovations at AVEVA World 2026
- [9] AVEVA connects industrial data to drive smarter energy operations
- [12] AVEVA PI to CONNECT Agent - ICS Advisories
- [28] Pricing Comparison: TDengine Historian vs. PI System
- [29] AVEVA PI Vision software
- [30] Comparing PI AF Pricing to a Timebase and InfoHub ...
- [31] AVEVA Flex Credits Explained: What They Cost and What to Do About It • Transpara
- [32] AVEVA Folds OSIsoft's PI System Into CONNECT as a Single Industrial Intelligence Platform
AVEVA CONNECT data services (5)
- [33] Process and Control Today
- [26] AVEVA Unveils Expanded Industrial AI Software Portfolio at AVEVA World 2026 < IT·Gaming < 기사본문 - The Elec Inc.
- [34] Schneider Electric to Acquire Cognite to Strengthen Industrial AI Portfolio
- [35] Schneider Electric Announces Agreement to Acquire Cognite - Globuc
- [36] AVEVA vs OSI PI (2026): Comprehensive comparison - RFP.wiki
AVEVA Historian (ex-Wonderware) (2)
AspenTech InfoPlus.21 (IP.21) (6)
- [18] AspenTech has been acquired by Emerson
- [39] Emerson Completes Acquisition of Remaining Outstanding Shares of AspenTech
- [40] EMERSON ELECTRIC CO - Form 10-K - FY2025
- [41] Aspen Technology, Inc. - Form 8-K - FY2025
- [42] Aspen Technology acquired by Emerson — 7.2B USD (Jan 2025)
- [19] EMERSON ELECTRIC CO - Form 10-Q - FY2025
Honeywell Uniformance PHD (3)
Honeywell Uniformance Cloud Historian (2)
Proficy Historian (4)
- [20] GE Vernova completes sale of Proficy® software business to TPG
- [47] TPG to acquire GE Vernova’s Proficy Software business for $600 million By Investing.com
- [48] GE Vernova Completes Sale of Proficy Software Business to TPG
- [49] GE Vernova Finalizes $600 Million Sale of Proficy Software Business to TPG
FactoryTalk Historian SE / ME (6)
- [50] FactoryTalk Historian SE Live Data Interface User Guide Version 12.01.00
- [51] Rockwell Automation adds new data historian to FactoryTalk suite - Control Engineering
- [52] FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition
- [53] FactoryTalk Historian ME ( Machine Edition ) Module 2GB ...
- [13] Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition
- [54] Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian ThingWorx
Siemens SIMATIC Process Historian (4)
Yokogawa Exaquantum (4)
ABB 800xA History (1)
Canary System (8)
- [64] Canary Labs announces InfoLink Process Historian
- [65] Factry Historian vs Canary Historian: flat site fee vs tag-count pricing - DEV Community
- [66] Canary Historian Reviews - 2025
- [67] Canary Historian Reviews in 2026
- [68] Industrial Data Historian Software, On-Prem & Cloud
- [69] Enterprise Data Historian Pricing Comparison for AVEVA PI, Ignition, and Canary
- [70] Data Historian Pricing
- [71] Canary Labs vs Grafine (2026): Pros, Cons & Pricing
dataPARC Historian (PARCserver) (4)
Factry Historian (4)
Ignition Historian (Core + SQL) (10)
- [1] Ignition 8.3 One Year Later: Key Changes for Industrial Automation Teams
- [78] Ignition 8.3.0: Universal Historian Solution, Event Streams, New Perspective Drawing Tools & So. Much. More!
- [2] Ignition 8.3–What’s New and Reasons to Upgrade Your Project
- [79] Ignition Data Historian Modules
- [80] Why Right Now Is the Best Time To Switch From Ignition 8.1 to 8.3
- [81] The Next Evolution in Historical Data
- [3] Ignition 8.3 Release: Power Historian, S7 Driver & New
- [82] Ignition Pricing
- [69] Enterprise Data Historian Pricing Comparison for AVEVA PI, Ignition, and Canary
- [83] New module: TimescaleDB historian for Ignition 8.3 - Ignition - Inductive Automation Forum
ICONICS Hyper Historian / GENESIS v11 (10)
- [23] Iconics
- [84] Welcome to Hyper Historian
- [85] Hyper Historian
- [86] Mitsubishi Electric & ICONICS Move SCADA Forward
- [5] Mitsubishi Electric Launches GENESIS Version 11: Industrial Data Visualisation and Secure Analysis Platform with Unlimited Licensing i4.0 Today Magazine
- [87] Mitsubishi Electric launches GENESIS Version 11 - Engineering Industry News
- [88] What's New in GENESIS Version 11
- [89] News
- [14] Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions / Mitsubishi Electric Products (Update F)
- [15] Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 and ICONICS Suite products
VTScada (8)
- [6] Best SCADA and HMI Software for 2026: An Independent Comparison
- [90] Page 1 of 2 Frequently Asked Questions Q - What is VTScadaLIGHT? A -
- [91] VTScadaLIGHT Free SCADA Software
- [92] Price Adjustment
- [93] VTScada vs Tatsoft (2026): We tried both - see who wins
- [94] Water SCADA Cost FAQs: Pricing, Annual Support & Grants
- [95] US Pricing Popular Bundles
- [96] SCADA Software Cost Comparison 2026: Pricing from Free to $50K+ (With Real Numbers)
Schneider EcoStruxure Geo SCADA (1)
Tatsoft FrameworX (Canary OEM) (1)
PTC Kepware + ThingWorx (3)
AWS IoT SiteWise (7)
- [99] Amazon IoT SiteWise Features
- [100] AWS IoT FleetWise and AWS IoT SiteWise — AWS Product Comparison
- [101] AWS IoT SiteWise - Industrial IoT · innFactory - Software Development, Cloud & AI
- [102] Explore Pricing for Amazon IoT SiteWise
- [103] SiteWise cost question
- [104] MachineCDN vs AWS IoT SiteWise: IIoT Platform Comparison for Manufacturing
- [105] Cost-effectively ingest IoT data directly into Amazon S3 using AWS IoT Greengrass - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Azure Data Explorer / Fabric Eventhouse (5)
- [106] Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence Guide (2026)
- [107] Fabric August 2026 Feature Summary
- [97] Real Time Intelligence
- [108] Industrial Analytics delivered at-scale: Powered by Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and Fusion Data Hub
- [109] Connecting shop floor to top floor: how Microsoft Fabric unifies manufacturing data across plants
Cognite Data Fusion (8)
- [110] Schneider Electric to acquire Cognite for $3.1 billion to expand industrial AI, operational data capabilities - Industrial Cyber
- [111] Wilson Sonsini Advises Cognite, Major Shareholders on $3.1 Billion Sale to Schneider Electric
- [112] Schneider to Buy Industrial AI Firm Cognite for $3.1 Billion - Bloomberg
- [113] Schneider Electric acquires Cognite for $3.1B in industrial AI push - SiliconANGLE
- [21] Schneider Electric agrees to acquire Cognite for $3.1B (announced June 2026)
- [34] Schneider Electric to Acquire Cognite to Strengthen Industrial AI Portfolio
- [10] Cognite September 2026 release: The Industrial AI Standard for Scale and Trust
- [114] Cognite Hub
Siemens Insights Hub (2)
TDengine Historian (TSDB + IDMP) (6)
Apache IoTDB / TimechoDB (5)
InfluxDB 3 (5)
TimescaleDB / Tiger Cloud (5)
QuestDB (4)
KX kdb+ / KDB-X (3)
Legal notice & methodology
This is A4BEE’s own independent research, compiled from publicly available information (vendor documentation, public contracts, reseller listings and third-party reviews) current as of 2026-10. It is general information, an input to your own evaluation, and not professional advice, a recommendation to buy or a warranty of fitness for any purpose.
Prices, tag limits and licence terms change often. Third-party and competitor figures are labelled as such and may be wrong or biased. Cost bands are A4BEE estimates, not vendor quotes. Verify every figure with the vendor through demos, references and a written quote before deciding.
A4BEE is independent of every vendor named here and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. All product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
What's inside
- 40 historians in five groups — enterprise, SCADA-embedded, cloud and IIoT, open-source databases, and context tools that are not historians
- Filterable explorer — type, deployment, licensing, price visibility and EU headquarters, with a shareable link and CSV export
- Price evidence table — every published number labelled by source quality, from vendor list prices to competitor estimates
- Five-year cost estimate for one plant of about 5,000 tags, in the currencies the sources used
- Performance claims kept apart and labelled as vendor, third-party, peer-reviewed or competitor figures
- Which historian for which job, market trends, advice and the limits of the evidence
Best used for
- Building a historian shortlist before vendor demos start
- Challenging a renewal quote from an incumbent historian with public price evidence
- Deciding whether an open-source time-series database is cheaper once engineering time is counted
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