diff --git a/docs/en/02-intro.md b/docs/en/02-intro.md index d5347e48abda2fcf4e2cac8051d967a28491bc63..dfe946be4e6511f76c3cf17bfecf81ec430e6a00 100644 --- a/docs/en/02-intro.md +++ b/docs/en/02-intro.md @@ -2,3 +2,47 @@ sidebar_label: Introduction title: TDengine Cloud Service --- +--- +title: Introduction +toc_max_heading_level: 2 +--- + +TDengine Cloud, is the fast, elastic, serverless and cost effective time-series data processing service based on the popular open source time-series database, TDengine. With TDengine Cloud you get the highly optimized and purpose-built for IoT time-series platform, for which TDengine is known. + +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. 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 [stream processing](../cloud/taos-sql). +7. Support for [data subscription](../cloud/taos-sql) with the capability to specify filter conditions. +8. High availability is supported by replication including multi-cloud replication. +9. Provides an interactive [command-line interface](/reference/taos-shell) for management, maintenance and ad-hoc queries. +10. Provides many ways to [get data in](/cloud/data-in) and [get data out](/cloud/data-out) data. +11. Provides a Dashboard to monitor your running instances of TDengine. +12. Provides [connectors](/cloud/connector/) for [Java](/cloud/connector/java), [Python](/cloud/connector/python), [Go](/cloud/connector/go), [Rust](/cloud/connector/rust), and [Node.js](/cloud/connector/node). +13. Provides a [REST API](/reference/rest-api/). +14. Supports seamless integration with [Grafana](/cloud/visual/grafana) for visualization. +15. Supports seamless integration with Google Data Studio. + +For more details on features, please read through the entire documentation. + +## Competitive Advantages + +By making full use of [characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/tsdb/characteristics-of-time-series-data/), TDengine Cloud differentiates itself from other time series platforms, with the following advantages. + +- **[High-Performance](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/high-performance-time-series-database/)**: TDengine Cloud is a fast, elastic, serverless purpose built platform for IoT time-series data. It is the only time-series platform to solve the high cardinality issue to support billions of data collection points while outperforming other time-series platforms for data ingestion, querying and data compression. + +- **[Simplified Solution](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/simplified-time-series-data-solution/)**: Through built-in caching, stream processing and data subscription features, TDengine provides a simplified solution for time-series data processing. It reduces system design complexity and operation costs significantly. + +- **[Cloud Native](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/cloud-native-time-series-database/)**: Through native distributed design, sharding and partitioning, separation of compute and storage, RAFT, support for kubernetes deployment and full observability, TDengine is a cloud native Time-Series Database and can be deployed on public, private or hybrid clouds. It is Enterprise ready with backup, multi-cloud replication, VPC peering and IP whitelisting. + +- **[Ease of Use](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/easy-time-series-data-platform/)**: For administrators, TDengine Cloud provides worry-free operations with a fully managed cloud native solution. For developers, it provides a simple interface, simplified solution and seamless integration with third party tools. For data users, it provides SQL support with powerful time series extensions built for data analytics. + +- **[Easy Data Analytics](https://tdengine.com/tdengine/time-series-data-analytics-made-easy/)**: Through super tables, storage and compute separation, data partitioning by time interval, pre-computation and other means, TDengine makes it easy to explore, format, and get access to data in a highly efficient way.