Comparisons
Written to help you decide, including against us.
Most industrial data tools are shortlisted against each other by people who have to live with the decision for years. These pages are written for that reader: what each product is actually built for, where the differences are real, and when the honest answer is that Proxus is not it.
- Written for
- Engineers building a shortlist, not a marketing scorecard
- Rule we follow
- Their strengths first, and the cases where we are the wrong answer
- Our figures
- From the current build’s own driver and target inventory
- Their figures
- From the vendor’s published material, with links
By the job they do
Grouped by the job in your data stack.
A plant’s data stack is usually bought one product at a time, for the same six jobs. Each comparison sits under the job its product is bought for, and Proxus does all six in one install.
Read the machines
Usually bought as a driver server
- Industrial connectivity server · Velotic (TPG; formerly PTC) Proxus vs Kepware The industry’s reference OPC server. Deep driver coverage; a different job from a data layer. Read the comparison
- OPC tunnelling and gateway software · Skkynet (Cogent DataHub), Honeywell (Matrikon), Softing Proxus vs OPC middleware Excellent at moving OPC across networks safely. A different job from modelling and storing it. Read the comparison
One data model (UNS)
Usually bought as a data modelling layer
- Industrial DataOps software · HighByte Proxus vs HighByte Intelligence Hub The closest peer in category. Modelling and orchestration by design, deliberately not a historian or a driver stack. Read the comparison
- Industrial edge data platform · Litmus Proxus vs Litmus Edge The closest direct competitor. Same category, cloud-and-AI-forward, with a published entry price. Read the comparison
- Messaging infrastructure · HiveMQ, EMQX, Mosquitto and others Proxus vs An MQTT broker The right transport for a Unified Namespace, and not a substitute for one. Read the comparison
History
Usually bought as a data historian
Screens, alarms, reports
Usually bought as a SCADA platform (for monitoring screens)
Rules and automation
Usually bought as flows and hand-written scripts
- Flow-based programming tool · OpenJS Foundation Proxus vs Node-RED Free, fast to prototype, enormous community. A toolkit rather than a governed platform. Read the comparison
- Open-source assembly · Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana and scripts Proxus vs A DIY stack Cheap to start, genuinely capable, and the maintenance is the product you end up owning. Read the comparison
Delivery to systems and cloud
Usually bought as cloud services plus middleware
How these are written
Four rules we hold ourselves to.
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No invented benchmarks
We do not publish a throughput or latency figure for either side unless the measurement boundary is published with it. Comparisons that turn on unverifiable numbers are marketing.
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Their strengths, stated plainly
Every page opens with what the other product is genuinely good at. Some of those strengths are reasons to buy it instead of Proxus, and we say so.
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Consolidate what costs you, keep what works
Proxus can take over connectivity, the data model, history, screens and delivery in one install. Where an existing product does its job well, it stays and Proxus connects to it. Every page shows both paths.
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Corrections welcome
Products change and we get things wrong. If a page is inaccurate, tell us, including when the correction favours the other side.
Next step
Still not sure which side of the line you are on?
Describe what you run today, job by job, and what it is failing to do. In thirty minutes we map which products Proxus would replace and which stay.
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Scoping call
Equipment, protocols, sites and the systems the data has to reach.
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Technical walkthrough
A working demo against a scenario that resembles your plant, not a generic tour.
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Pilot plan
A defined first line or site, with the deployment and security questions answered up front.
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Roll-out
The same templates bring the next lines and sites online.