timebase/historian repository overview

⁠Timebase Historian

Timebase Historian is a time series historian built for easy adoption, fast industrial data ingestion, and millisecond queries.

Storage

• Point based ingestion with store and forward collectors
• Columnar, loss-less storage, partitioned by time
• Per dataset retention (by age and by size) and late data tolerance
  
  

Get data in

• OPC UA, MQTT, SparkplugB, Telegraf and Simulator, through Timebase Collector
• REST API and a buffered .NET client library
  
  

Get data out

• REST API, plus SignalR and Server-Sent Events for live streaming
• PostgreSQL wire protocol - point psql, Grafana, Power BI or any SQL client at it
• CESMII i3X interoperability API
  
  

Operate it

• Built-in web UI and an AI assistant
• MCP server, so AI agents can browse and query your data
• Secured by Timebase Pulse (OAuth 2.0 client credentials)
  
  

Runs on linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.

⁠Documentation

For the Quick Start, the full-stack Compose file and further documentation, see Start Here for Docker⁠ on docs.timebase.com⁠.