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    AVEVA Historian

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AAVEVA Historian, formerly from Wonderware, is a time-series optimized data store, allowing the user to capture and store high-fidelity industrial big data, to unlock trapped potential for operational improvements.N/A

    Grafana

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGrafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard.

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    AVEVA HistorianGrafana
    Editions & Modules
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    Grafana Cloud - Pro
    $8
    per month up to 1 active user
    Grafana Cloud - Free
    Free
    10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
    Grafana Cloud - Advanced
    Volume Discounts
    custom data usage custom active users
    Grafana - Enterprise Stack
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    AVEVA HistorianGrafana
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    AVEVA HistorianGrafana
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of AVEVA Historian and Grafana
    Feature
    AVEVA Historian
    -
    Ratings
    Grafana
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of AVEVA Historian and Grafana
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    AVEVA Historian
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    Grafana
    6.8
    4 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of AVEVA Historian and Grafana
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    AVEVA Historian
    -
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    Grafana
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of AVEVA Historian and Grafana
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    AVEVA Historian
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    Grafana
    7.7
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AVEVA HistorianGrafana
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    AVEVA HistorianGrafana
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AVEVA
    Paired with Citect SCADA or System Platform, this is an excellent process historian. It also works well collecting OPC data. For basic data storage, retrieval, and analysis, this is well suited. This is not well suited for very large deployments. Multiple instances would need to be used to scale up, and the data fed into a second-tier/enterprise historian for corporate user consumption.
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    Grafana Labs
    Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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    Pros
    AVEVA
    • Data storage--multiple data sources stream data in real time; it is stored without issue
    • Data retrieval--small to moderate queries and trends are generally fast and efficient
    • Cost effectiveness--it is one of the cheaper (non-enterprise) historian offers and therefore is good value for money (with a reduced feature set)
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    Grafana Labs
    • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
    • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
    • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
    • Microservices monitoring
    • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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    Cons
    AVEVA
    • Query performance--for very long-term/large queries; the latest version which we are yet to commission has some improvements in this area
    • User interface--the trend, query, and Excel add-ins are basic and could do with a refresh; web-based clients are a paid add-on and less full featured, so not a true replacement
    • Connectivity--Wonderware System Platform driver packs are required for additional data source types, where native connectors are not provided by other products
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    Grafana Labs
    • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
    • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
    • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
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    Usability
    AVEVA
    No answers on this topic
    Grafana Labs
    It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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    Alternatives Considered
    AVEVA
    AVEVA Historian, formerly Wonderware, was the best of the process tier historians in terms of reliability and functionality. It is still under development and not a "dead" product. It is also more cost effective than the more full-featured enterprise historians, such as PI, which our organization is not yet ready for. The feature set is at the right cost level, coupled with current support, were the key factors in the decision.
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    Grafana Labs
    Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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    Return on Investment
    AVEVA
    • Increased efficiency, reduction in labour for preparing reports--data is available to be queried and reported with less effort
    • Increased production efficiency--near real-time data availability and comparisons to historical data has been used to make faster and better operational decisions
    • Increased reliability--data has been used for maintenance optimization and planning purposes
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    Grafana Labs
    • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
    • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
    • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
    Incentivized
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