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# What is TDengine?
TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native [time-series database](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/what-is-a-time-series-database/) optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT. It enables efficient, real-time data ingestion, processing, and monitoring of TB and even PB scale data per day, generated by billions of sensors and data collectors. TDengine differentiates itself from other time-seires databases with the following advantages:
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. It enables efficient, real-time data ingestion, processing, and monitoring of TB and even PB scale data per day, generated by billions of sensors and data collectors. TDengine differentiates itself from other time-seires databases 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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-**[Open Source](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/open-source-time-series-database/)**: TDengine’s core modules, including cluster feature, are all available under open source licenses. It has gathered 18.8k stars on GitHub. There is an active developer community, and over 139k running instances worldwide.
For a full list of TDengine competitive advantages, please [check here](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/)
# Documentation
For user manual, system design and architecture, please refer to [TDengine Documentation](https://docs.tdengine.com)([TDengine 文档](https://docs.taosdata.com))
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Please follow the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) to contribute to the project.
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