TDengine is a high-performance, scalable time-series database with SQL support. Its code, including its cluster feature is open source under GNU AGPL v3.0. Besides the database engine, it provides [caching](/develop/cache), [stream processing](/develop/continuous-query), [data subscription](/develop/subscribe) and other functionalities to reduce the complexity and cost of development and operation.
This section introduces the major features, competitive advantages, suited scenarios and benchmarks to help you get a high level picture for TDengine.
This section introduces the major features, competitive advantages, typical use-cases and benchmarks to help you get a high level overview of TDengine.
## Major Features
The major features are listed below:
1.Besides [using SQL to insert](/develop/insert-data/sql-writing)，it supports [Schemaless writing](/reference/schemaless/)，and it supports [InfluxDB LINE](/develop/insert-data/influxdb-line)，[OpenTSDB Telnet](/develop/insert-data/opentsdb-telnet), [OpenTSDB JSON ](/develop/insert-data/opentsdb-json) and other protocols.
2.Support for seamless integration with third-party data collection agents like [Telegraf](/third-party/telegraf)，[Prometheus](/third-party/prometheus)，[StatsD](/third-party/statsd)，[collectd](/third-party/collectd)，[icinga2](/third-party/icinga2), [TCollector](/third-party/tcollector), [EMQX](/third-party/emq-broker), [HiveMQ](/third-party/hive-mq-broker). Without a line of code, those agents can write data points into TDengine just by configuration.
3. Support for [all kinds of queries](/develop/query-data), including aggregation, nested query, downsampling, interpolation, etc.
4. Support for [user defined functions](/develop/udf)
1.While TDengine supports [using SQL to insert](/develop/insert-data/sql-writing), it also supports [Schemaless writing](/reference/schemaless/) just like NoSQL databases. TDengine also supports standard protocols like [InfluxDB LINE](/develop/insert-data/influxdb-line)，[OpenTSDB Telnet](/develop/insert-data/opentsdb-telnet), [OpenTSDB JSON ](/develop/insert-data/opentsdb-json) among others.
2.TDengine supports seamless integration with third-party data collection agents like [Telegraf](/third-party/telegraf)，[Prometheus](/third-party/prometheus)，[StatsD](/third-party/statsd)，[collectd](/third-party/collectd)，[icinga2](/third-party/icinga2), [TCollector](/third-party/tcollector), [EMQX](/third-party/emq-broker), [HiveMQ](/third-party/hive-mq-broker). These agents can write data into TDengine with simple configuration and without a single line of code.
3. Support for [all kinds of queries](/develop/query-data), including aggregation, nested query, downsampling, interpolation and others.
4. Support for [user defined functions](/develop/udf).
5. Support for [caching](/develop/cache). TDengine always saves the last data point in cache, so Redis is not needed in some scenarios.
6. Support for [continuous query](/develop/continuous-query).
7. Support for [data subscription](/develop/subscribe) with the capability to specify filter conditions.
8. Support for [cluster](/cluster/), with the capability of increasing processing power by adding more nodes. High availability is supported by replication.
9. Provides interactive [command-line interface](/reference/taos-shell) for management, maintenance and ad-hoc query.
9. Provides an interactive [command-line interface](/reference/taos-shell) for management, maintenance and ad-hoc queries.
10. Provides many ways to [import](/operation/import) and [export](/operation/export) data.
11. Provides [monitoring](/operation/monitor) on TDengine running instances.
11. Provides [monitoring](/operation/monitor) on running instances of TDengine.
12. Provides [connectors](/reference/connector/) for [C/C++](/reference/connector/cpp), [Java](/reference/connector/java), [Python](/reference/connector/python), [Go](/reference/connector/go), [Rust](/reference/connector/rust), [Node.js](/reference/connector/node) and other programming languages.
13. Provides a [REST API](/reference/rest-api/).
14. Supports the seamless integration with [Grafana](/third-party/grafana) for visualization.
14. Supports seamless integration with [Grafana](/third-party/grafana) for visualization.
15. Supports seamless integration with Google Data Studio.
For more detail on features, please read through the whole documentation.
For more details on features, please read through the entire documentation.
## Competitive Advantages
TDengine makes full use of [the characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/2019/07/09/86.html), such as structured, no transaction, rarely delete or update, etc., and builds its own innovative storage engine and computing engine to differentiate itself from other time series databases with the following advantages.
Time-series data is structured, not transactional, and is rarely deleted or updated. TDengine makes full use of [these characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/2019/07/09/86.html) to build its own innovative storage engine and computing engine to differentiate itself from other time series databases, with the following advantages.
-**[High Performance](https://tdengine.com/fast)**: TDengine outperforms other time series databases in data ingestion and querying while significantly reducing storage cost and compute costs, with an innovatively designed and purpose-built storage engine.
-**[High Performance](https://tdengine.com/fast)**: With an innovatively designed and purpose-built storage engine, TDengine outperforms other time series databases in data ingestion and querying while significantly reducing storage costs and compute costs.
-**[Scalable](https://tdengine.com/scalable)**: TDengine provides out-of-box scalability and high-availability through its native distributed design. Nodes can be added through simple configuration to achieve greater data processing power. In addition, this feature is open source.
-**[SQL Support](https://tdengine.com/sql-support)**: TDengine uses SQL as the query language, thereby reducing learning and migration costs, while adding SQL extensions to handle time-series data better, and supporting convenient and flexible schemaless data ingestion.
-**[SQL Support](https://tdengine.com/sql-support)**: TDengine uses SQL as the query language, thereby reducing learning and migration costs, while adding SQL extensions to better handle time-series. Keeping NoSQL developers in mind, TDengine also supports convenient and flexible, schemaless data ingestion.
-**All in One**: TDengine has built-in caching, stream processing and data subscription functions. It is no longer necessary to integrate Kafka/Redis/HBase/Spark or other software in some scenarios. It makes the system architecture much simpler, cost-effective and easier to maintain.
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-**Zero Management**: Installation and cluster setup can be done in seconds. Data partitioning and sharding are executed automatically. TDengine’s running status can be monitored via Grafana or other DevOps tools.
-**Zero Learning Costs**: With SQL as the query language and support for ubiquitous tools like Python, Java, C/C++, Go, Rust, and Node.js connectors, there are zero learning costs.
-**Zero Learning Costs**: With SQL as the query language and support for ubiquitous tools like Python, Java, C/C++, Go, Rust, and Node.js connectors, and a REST API, there are zero learning costs.
-**Interactive Console**: TDengine provides convenient console access to the database to run ad hoc queries, maintain the database, or manage the cluster without any programming.
-**Interactive Console**: TDengine provides convenient console access to the database, through a CLI, to run ad hoc queries, maintain the database, or manage the cluster, without any programming.
With TDengine, the total cost of ownership of time-series data platform can be greatly reduced. Because 1: with its superior performance, the computing and storage resources are reduced significantly; 2：with SQL support, it can be seamlessly integrated with many third party tools, and learning costs/migration costs are reduced significantly; 3: with its simple architecture and zero management, the operation and maintenance costs are reduced.
With TDengine, the total cost of ownership of your time-series data platform can be greatly reduced. 1: With its superior performance, the computing and storage resources are reduced significantly 2: With SQL support, it can be seamlessly integrated with many third party tools, and learning costs/migration costs are reduced significantly 3: With its simple architecture and zero management, the operation and maintenance costs are reduced.
## Technical Ecosystem
In the time-series data processing platform, TDengine stands in a role like this diagram below:
This is how TDengine would be situated, in a typical time-series data processing platform:
On the left side, there are data collection agents like OPC-UA, MQTT, Telegraf and Kafka. On the right side, visualization/BI tools, HMI, Python/R, and IoT Apps can be connected. TDengine itself provides interactive command-line interface and web interface for management and maintenance.
On the left-hand side, there are data collection agents like OPC-UA, MQTT, Telegraf and Kafka. On the right-hand side, visualization/BI tools, HMI, Python/R, and IoT Apps can be connected. TDengine itself provides an interactive command-line interface and a web interface for management and maintenance.
## Suited Scenarios
## Typical Use Cases
As a high-performance, scalable and SQL supported time-series database, TDengine's typical application scenarios include but are not limited to IoT, Industrial Internet, Connected Vehicles, IT operation and maintenance, energy, financial markets and other fields. TDengine is a purpose-built database optimized for the characteristics of time series data, it cannot be used to process data from web crawlers, social media, e-commerce, ERP, CRM, etc. This section makes a more detailed analysis of the applicable scenarios.
As a high-performance, scalable and SQL supported time-series database, TDengine's typical use case include but are not limited to IoT, Industrial Internet, Connected Vehicles, IT operation and maintenance, energy, financial markets and other fields. TDengine is a purpose-built database optimized for the characteristics of time series data. As such, it cannot be used to process data from web crawlers, social media, e-commerce, ERP, CRM and so on. More generally TDengine is not a suitable storage engine for non-time-series data. This section makes a more detailed analysis of the applicable scenarios.
### Characteristics and Requirements of Data Sources
