Storing data to multiple storage location types in a distributed historization system

A historization system enabling storage of data to multiple locations having multiple storage types comprising:

• a historian server;
• a first memory device coupled to the historian server;
• a historian storage module stored on the memory device and executed on the historian server, the historian storage module comprising an abstraction layer module;
• and
• one or more storage locations communicatively coupled to the historian storage device;
• wherein the historian storage module comprises processor executable instructions for:
• beginning the historian storage process;
• receiving data to be stored;
• determining a storage type for the received data;
• and
• loading the abstraction layer module with the received data and the determined storage type;
• wherein the abstraction layer module comprises processor executable instructions for:
• storing implementations of one or more storage type interfaces;
• receiving data to be stored and storage type from the historian storage module;
• determining a storage type interface which matches the received storage type from the one or more storage type interfaces;
• formatting the received data to the matching storage type interface;
• determining a storage location that matches the received storage type from the one or more storage locations;
• and
• sending formatted data to be stored at the matching storage location via the matching storage type interface.