## <a class="anchor" id="queries"></a> Main Query Features
TDengine uses SQL as the query language. Applications can send SQL statements through C/C++, Java, Go, Python connectors, and users can manually execute SQL Ad-Hoc Query through the Command Line Interface (CLI) tool TAOS Shell provided by TDengine. TDengine supports the following query functions:
TDengine uses SQL as the query language. Applications can send SQL statements through C/C++, Java, Go, C#, Python, Node.js connectors, and users can manually execute SQL Ad-Hoc Query through the Command Line Interface (CLI) tool TAOS Shell provided by TDengine. TDengine supports the following query functions:
- Single-column and multi-column data query
- Multiple filters for tags and numeric values: >, <,=,<>, like, etc