TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native [time-series database](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/) optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT. 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/stream), [data subscription](../develop/tmq) and other functionalities to reduce the system complexity and cost of development and operation.
TDengine is an [open source](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/open-source-time-series-database/), [high-performance](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/high-performance-time-series-database/), cloud native [time-series database](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/) optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT. 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/stream), [data subscription](../develop/tmq) and other functionalities to reduce the system complexity and cost of development and operation.
This section introduces the major features, competitive advantages, typical use-cases and benchmarks to help you get a high level overview of TDengine.
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## Competitive Advantages
By making full use of [characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/characteristics-of-time-series-data/), TDengine differentiates itself from other time series databases, with the following advantages.
By making full use of [characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/characteristics-of-time-series-data/), TDengine differentiates itself from other [time series databases](https://tdengine.com/tsdb), with the following advantages.
-**[High-Performance](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/high-performance-time-series-database/)**: TDengine is the only time-series database to solve the high cardinality issue to support billions of data collection points while out performing other time-series databases for data ingestion, querying and data compression.
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-[TDengine vs OpenTSDB](https://tdengine.com/2019/09/12/710.html)
-[TDengine vs Cassandra](https://tdengine.com/2019/09/12/708.html)
-[TDengine vs InfluxDB](https://tdengine.com/2019/09/12/706.html)
## More readings
-[Introduction to Time-Series Database](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/)
-[Introduction to TDengine competitive advantages](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/)
