Feature Matrix - Advanced OPC Data Logger

Introduction

Advanced OPC Data Logger supplies several versions called Enterprise, Professional, Standard, Lite. These versions contain different features and are ideal for users who either want a low-cost solution or are not interested in more advanced features.

This page lists the principal features of Advanced OPC Data Logger and identifies those features that are not available in the corresponding version.

Advanced OPC Data Logger users can upgrade to the higher version at any time, only by paying the difference in price between the versions. The actual software is identical since the software activation key is used to configure all editions. A code can be sent by email that allows the user to upgrade the software.

Feature set

The following table allows you to compare the main features in Advanced OPC Data Logger and shows which of these are eliminated from the corresponding edition.

Feature	Enterprise	Professional	Standard	Lite
Number of configurations	2+ 4)	2 4)	1 4)	1 4)
Multiple OPC servers at the same time	✓	✓	✓	✓
Unlimited number of OPC servers	Unlimited within one configuration / 2+	Unlimited within one configuration / 2	Unlimited within one configuration / 1	Unlimited within one configuration / 1
Unlimited number of OPC tags	✓	✓	✓	✓
Connection to local and remote OPC servers	✓	✓	✓	✓
OPC DA1, OPC DA2	✓	✓	✓	✓
OPC HDA	✓	✓	✓
OPC AE	✓	✓
OPC UA	✓
OPC XML	✓
General
Receive binary, text, and ASCII data	✓	✓	✓	✓
Output received data without any changes to file	✓	✓	✓	✓
Log rotation (depends on date or time, size, etc.)	✓	✓	✓	✓
Log deletion	✓	✓	✓	✓
Log file access control	✓	✓	✓	✓
Configurable log file access	✓	✓	✓	✓
Auto program restart at the specified time	✓	✓	✓	✓
Auto data source reopening at the specified time	✓	✓	✓	✓
Program messages logging	✓	✓	✓	✓
Simple, menu-driven step by step set-up	✓	✓	✓	✓
Capability to run multiple instances simultaneously so that multiple data sources can be logged	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save settings to INI-file	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save settings to Windows registry	✓	✓	✓	✓
On-line help	✓	✓	✓	✓
Windows service mode
Windows Service	✓	✓	✓
Starts as soon as the operating system starts and doesn't require a user to log in and run it	✓	✓	✓
Logging plugins (list)
Real-time fast and simple data logging to CSV files	✓	✓	✓	✓
Data filter and modification plugins (list)
Expressions plugin allows using math, string, and boolean expression on parsed variables.	✓
Deadband provides a method to exclude less significant data records from the final data export.	✓
The Aggregator plugin allows you to combine data from several different parsed data records into one joint data record.	✓
Data export plugins (list)
Data export to any ODBC-compatible database (MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and many others)	✓	✓
Data export to the most popular cloud databases (Microsoft Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift)	✓2)	✓2)
OPC DA, UA or DDE servers	✓	✓
Write data directly to rows and columns of a Microsoft Excel file	✓	✓
Write parsed data to a file of Microsoft Excel, RTF, HTML, CSV, Plain text, Windows Clipboard, XML, PDF formats	✓	✓
Write parsed data to Google Sheets	✓2)	✓2)
Event plugins (list)
Send data to a remote server through email, HTTP POST, SFTP or FTP.	✓	✓
Execute programs or script	✓	✓
Send instant notifications and alarms through email, messengers (like Telegram, Slack), or SMS providers.	✓	✓

²⁾ All plugins with the "Professional" suffix are the paid option.
⁴⁾ You can add only this number of configurations. The number of configurations you may calculate in the "Options → Manage configurations" menu item. These configurations you may create using the "Plus" button in the main window. Generally, it means a number of different OPC servers because data from these servers should be processed differently.
⁵⁾ The OPC UA interface has the following limitations:

1. Binary data transfer only (opc.tcp://). The program does not support http:// or https://
2. Unable to read history data, alarms or events.