The Time Series Database for Industrial Automation

The personal preference of the end user will greatly guide which data historian software they prefer, but a few important features such as scalability, speed, reliability, and overall system pricing, both initial and recurring, should be heavily considered.

Battling inefficiencies and trying to save money is important to every industrial process. It is frustrating that most companies first have to invest a large amount of capital to equip themselves with SCADA solutions and data historians in order to find ways to run more efficiently.

Could Cassandra be optimized to store time-series data? This is a question that has become a common topic for discussion. I recently came across a great read that compares Cassandra performance to another dedicated time-series database, TimescaleDB.