Timebase is built by process and control engineers with decades of plant-floor experience and a deep respect for the people asked to do more with less. Every design choice reflects that reality, delivering the tools engineers actually need to do the job right.
Never be forced to make a decision about whether you can historize a tag again. Store what you want to store without worrying about tag licensing limits holding you back.
The Timebase Historian archive is tested continuously with more than 1,000,000 tags, sustaining not just large tag counts but high write speeds.
If you need high resolution time series data performance, you can't use SQL. That's why we engineered our historian to use a file-based structure optimized for read and write.
A Timebase Dataset is capable of 150,000 updates, or writes, per second. With speeds like that you can capture every point that matters without limitations.
Every data point you store is a data point you keep. We use a purpose-built algorithm to ensure optimal storage without sacrificing data fidelity.
It's crucial that Operations can own and manage a historian. Timebase makes it easy for you to do just that. No database skills or advanced IT knowledge required.
All Timebase components can run in a Windows environment or on Linux as docker containers. Rest assured, you will get the same great performance no matter your OS.
Run as many Timebase instances as you need. Data loggers will point to multiple servers ensuring independent data streams are writing values 24/7 to all your historians.
Making your data work for you is all about having great trending tools at the ready for your engineers and operators. Explorer trending delivers in a major way. Run batch comparisons, do detailed trend over trend analysis, and quickly convert pens into raw data tables... and yes, you can export them to CSV.
More than just trend lines, Explorer provides unique State visualization and high-level context views of key variables.
Quickly pivot between trends and data tables, with perfect time stamp normalization across various data resolutions.
Overlay multiple batches and compare key data points with perfect alignment.
When you convert various batches or period comparisons to data tables, the timestamps sync to the event start.
World class engineers within world class companies have found value in Timebase, we are confident you will too
Timebase data collection builds ontop of the industry standards you are already following. All Collectors feature Store and Forward with automatic data buffering and disk storage and can stream to multiple Timebase Historians simultaneously.
Connect directly to OPC UA servers to subscribe to tags and log to the Timebase historian.
Supports continuous sampling, event-driven updates, and data change notifications, ensuring that value changes are captured reliably and without polling overhead.
Allows Timebase to ingest structured, typed, and stateful MQTT data based on the Sparkplug B specification.
It's designed for environments where reliable equipment state, accurate metric reporting, and minimal polling overhead are important.
Connects directly to standard MQTT brokers to ingest high-frequency publish/subscribe data into the Timebase Historian.
Supports raw topic ingestion with flexible payload handling, making it ideal for lightweight devices, and systems that publish MQTT without Sparkplug structure.
Integrates natively with Inductive Automation Ignition 8.3+ to stream tag history directly into Timebase using native Ignition configuration.
Designed for plants standardizing on Ignition, providing a simple, reliable path to long-term storage without additional gateways or polling load.
Allows Timebase to ingest metrics collected by Telegraf from IT, OT, and infrastructure systems and reliably store them.
Supports hundreds of input plugins, enabling unified storage of system, network, and application telemetry alongside operational time-series data.
Provides a fully documented interface to programmatically create and manage datasets, define and update tags, and write time-series data directly into Timebase.
Designed for custom applications and integrations where direct control, versioning, and repeatable data ingestion are required.
Atlas connects to your historians, MES, LIMS, CMMS, ERP, and other data systems and applies object-oriented principles and knowledge graphs to the OT world, enabling flexible models that can be used to solve your most complex business problems. With a built-in websocket interface, Atlas itself functions as a Unified Namespace you can subscribe to directly.
Bridge is a pipeline-driven integration engine that extends Atlas by delivering modeled data to systems that cannot subscribe directly.
The Historian ensures your raw and original values are stored for as long as you desire. But what good is stored data if it's locked away behind a proprietary database with no access? No worries, Timebase makes it easy to use your data and make it work for you.
Query data as you need it using the well documented REST API. Search for tags. Assign metadata. Call for raw timestamp, value, and quality data points.
The commercially available MCP Server provides you the ability to plug in the LLM or AI agent of your choosing. Test it for free with the current beta release in version 1.2.
Need to subscribe to your data on change? Timebase Historian’s WebSocket connection delivers event-driven updates the moment values change. This enables DataOps pipelines to react immediately, triggering validations or downstream publishing without polling.
Want to model your data, perform calculations, highlight process events, build KPIs, and dive into deeper analytics?
Flow Software's Infohub has a native connector to the Timebase Historian ready to help with your information management.
The team at Flow Software has a pair of AI Gateway solutions that couple MCP servers with the prebuilt tools you need to be successful right out of the box. Our team has worked hard to provide short context windows that make it possible for you to connect any MCP compliant agent to your data. Both Timebase and Flow Software's Infohub can be upgraded to include AI Gateway.
We understand that the promise of "free" can often come with hidden strings attached. That's why we want to be crystal clear; when we say the base features of Timebase's historian is free, we mean it. That means you can collect, store, trend, and export time series data without any commercial requirements.
Let's be clear, there are no limitations on the number of tags, users, data queries, or instances you can run. You can record every data value forever, with percision down to 500ms. We are even happy to assist with standard support via our ticketing system at no charge.
Create as many logging sessions with as many technologies as you desire. We will never charge you for any of our data collection offerings.
The historian is yours to use at no charge. Store as many tags as you like, or run as many historian instances as you need. We will not charge you for archiving your data.
Explore trending is yours to use as you need. There is no cap on users or on trend charts. Build and save as many as you find helpful for solving plant problems.
It's your data and you have full access to it. The REST API, and WebSocket connection are not licensed and always avaialble for any Timebase Historian.
The Pulse Identity Provider ensures your entire Timebase stack is secure. Client and user security is always complimentary. After all, what good is a solution if it isn't secure?
We know you will have questions along the way so we have provided a detailed Knowledge Base to help you quickly find answers. Our support team is also available via email.
Once you find value in Timebase, we are happy to provide a Premium level of support for a reasonable annual fee. Most small to medium sites are can be covered for $5,000 per year. Multi-site discounts are available.
For over a decade, the team at Flow have been helping engineers around the world model data from the various production, maintenance, inventory, and quality systems that have notoriously been isolated silos of uncontextualized data. With so many operations still lacking performant historians, there is not doubt that once you have data sitting in your Timebase Historian, Infohub will help you drive better decisions with that data.
On top of the free foundation we have developed and are continuing to develop licensed modules that will add to your system performance, help you maintain regulatory compliance, and provide even more power to your Timebase platform. These are never mandatory but we think you will be quick to agree that they have a strong ROI.
We know that once you have a data foundation in place, you will want to do more advanced operations with your stored results. We are releasing additional Timebase components to assist with that task and are excited to offer Timebase Atlas and Timebase Bridge as commercially available subscriptions. Advanced data modeling based on a knowledge graph will help you unlock agentic AI and increase your capacity to build complex data pipelines.
Our MCP server and prebuilt tooling is commercially available as an annual subcription. We are confident that you will quickly find this solution an extremely valuable addition to your suite.
Bring scale, speed, and unified access to large industrial data sets. The HP Suite spreads telemetry across multiple archives, ties them together as a single logical source, and auto-scales datasets as load increases. High-priority tags can log as fast as 100 ms, and publish historical results and context to MQTT for downstream analytics and UNS use. Additionally, an upgraded REST API means you can aggregate raw data on demand.
The team at Flow Software are proud to be the driving force behind the creation of Timebase Historian.
Founded by seasoned system integrators and engineers with decades of experience on the plant floor, Flow Software has always been committed to solving the real-world data challenges faced by manufacturers.
Twenty years ago, we saw the frustration of dealing with expensive, complex, and underperforming data storage solutions—a problem that still persists today. That's why we developed Timebase Historian, to provide a free, reliable, and efficient solution for time series data storage.
Beyond Timebase, Flow Software offers powerful tools that help you do more with your data, from advanced analytics to seamless integration with other systems. Our mission is to empower manufacturers with the data they need to drive innovation, efficiency, and excellence.
