# New Historian - QuestDB **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\ **Created:** [July 30, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-historian-questdb/109144 "2025-07-30T13:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
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> [@Kyle.Chase](#): > > We will support the external QuestDB historian at some point in the future. 😃 Disclaimer: Not my area of the product, but (while QuestDB is enormously powerful) it's important to think of the 'Power Historian' as it will exist in 8.3.0 as a deliberately **limited** implementation. It's not meant to be all the things for all the people \[1\] - it's specifically meant to be "here's a turn key historian _you don't have to think about_" - specifically for folks who don't want to manage a SQL DB on an additional server, or don't want to bother their IT department with permissions to add tables/a schema, or are just used to XYZ other software that proudly proclaims how easy their historian is to set up. * * * 1. yet --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-historian-questdb/109144)._