Realtime Tags

The Real-time Database Defines the application process variables, templates and assets. The real-time database guarantees, without requiring any additional programming, the synchronization of data among multiple server processes and multiple client stations. A set of built-in properties, such as data quality, time-stamp, lock state and locked value, simplifies the systems modeling. A group of tags and other project components can be assigned to a tree hierarchy, creating an Asset view of your system.

The Real-time database also has support to tri-dimensional arrays with size dynamically specified, allowing efficient memory usage and templates, user defined structures and models. FactoryStudio has the most complete set of real-time entities. It was the first platform to deliver the complete correspondence of real-time tags, .NET types and SQL columns, as show on following table.


FactoryStudio tag type	.NET Framework type	SQL database type
Digital	Boolean	Bit
Integer	int32	int
Long	int64	bigint
Double	double	float
Decimal	decimal	decimal
Text	string char[]	nchar, ntext, char, text, varchar
DateTime	DateTimeOffset	DateTime, DateTimeOffset
TimeSpan	TimeSpan	Time
Timer	int32	int
Image	byte[]	Binary, Image, VarBinary
Guid	Guid	UniqueIdentifier
DataTable	System.Data.DataTable