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.
TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native time-series database 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/continuous-query), [data subscription](/develop/subscribe) 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
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.
By making full use of [these characteristics of time series data](https://tdengine.com/2019/07/09/86.html), TDengine differentiates itself from other time series databases, with the following advantages.
-**[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.
-**High-Performance**: 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.
-**[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.
-**Simplified 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.
-**[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.
-**Cloud Native**: 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.
-**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.
-**Ease of Use**: For administrators, TDengine significantly reduces the effort to deploy and maintain. For developers, it provides a simple interface, simplified solution and seamless integrations for third party tools. For data users, it gives easy data access.
-**Seamless Integration**: Without a single line of code, TDengine provide seamless, configurable integration with third-party tools such as Telegraf, Grafana, EMQX, Prometheus, StatsD, collectd, etc. More third-party tools are being integrated.
-**Easy Data Analytics**: 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.
-**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.
-**Open Source**: 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.
-**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, 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 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.
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 simplified solution and nearly zero management, the operation and maintenance costs are reduced significantly.
## Technical Ecosystem
This is how TDengine would be situated, in a typical time-series data processing platform:
