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title: Connector
description: This document describes the connectors that TDengine provides to interface with various programming languages.
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TDengine provides a rich set of APIs (application development interface). To facilitate users to develop their applications quickly, TDengine supports connectors for multiple programming languages, including official connectors for C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Node.js, C#, and Rust. These connectors support connecting to TDengine clusters using both native interfaces (taosc) and REST interfaces (not supported in a few languages yet). Community developers have also contributed several unofficial connectors, such as the ADO.NET connector, the Lua connector, and the PHP connector.

![TDengine Database image-connector](./connector.webp)

## Supported platforms

Currently, TDengine's native interface connectors can support platforms such as x64 and ARM hardware platforms and Linux/Windows/macOS development environments. The comparison matrix is as follows.

| **CPU**        | **OS**    | **Java** | **Python** | **Go** | **Node.js** | **C#** | **Rust** | C/C++ |
| -------------- | --------- | -------- | ---------- | ------ | ----------- | ------ | -------- | ----- |
| **X86 64bit**  | **Linux** | ●        | ●          | ●      | ●           | ●      | ●        | ●     |
| **X86 64bit**  | **Win64** | ●        | ●          | ●      | ●           | ●      | ●        | ●     |
| **X86 64bit**  | **macOS** | ○        | ●          | ●      | ○           | ○      | ●        | ●     |
| **ARM64**      | **Linux** | ●        | ●          | ●      | ●           | ○      | ○        | ●     |
| **ARM64**      | **macOS** | ○        | ●          | ●      | ○           | ○      | ●        | ●     |

Where ● means the official test verification passed, ○ means the unofficial test verification passed, -- means no assurance.

Using REST connection can support a broader range of operating systems as it does not rely on client drivers.

## Version support

TDengine version updates often add new features, and the connector versions in the list are the best-fit versions of the connector.

| **TDengine Versions**       | **Java**       | **Python**     | **Go**         | **C#**        | **Node.js**     | **Rust**        |
| --------------------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | --------------- | --------------- |
| **3.0.0.0 and later**       | 3.0.2 +        | latest version | 3.0 branch     | 3.0.0         | 3.0.0           | current version |
| **2.4.0.14 and up **        | 2.0.38         | latest version | develop branch | 1.0.2 - 1.0.6 | 2.0.10 - 2.0.12 | current version |
| **2.4.0.4 - 2.4.0.13 **     | 2.0.37         | latest version | develop branch | 1.0.2 - 1.0.6 | 2.0.10 - 2.0.12 | current version |
| **2.2.x.x **                | 2.0.36         | latest version | master branch  | n/a           | 2.0.7 - 2.0.9   | current version |
| **2.0.x.x **                | 2.0.34         | latest version | master branch  | n/a           | 2.0.1 - 2.0.6   | current version |

## Functional Features

Comparing the connector support for TDengine functional features as follows.

### Using the native interface (taosc)

| **Functional Features**       | **Java**      | **Python** | **Go**        | **C#**        | **Node.js**   | **Rust**      |
| ----------------------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |
| **Connection Management**     | Support       | Support    | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Regular Query**             | Support       | Support    | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Parameter Binding**         | Support       | Support    | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Subscription (TMQ)**        | Support       | Support    | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Schemaless**                | Support       | Support    | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **DataFrame**                 | Not Supported | Support    | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |

:::info
The different database framework specifications for various programming languages do not mean that all C/C++ interfaces need a wrapper.
:::

### Use HTTP Interfaces (REST or WebSocket)

| **Functional Features**                | **Java**      | **Python**      | **Go**        | **C#**        | **Node.js**   | **Rust**      |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------- | --------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- |
| **Connection Management**              | Support       | Support         | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Regular Query**                      | Support       | Support         | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **Parameter Binding**                  | Not Supported | Not Supported   | Support       | Support       | Not Supported | Support       |
| **Subscription (TMQ) **                | Supported     | Support         | Support       | Not Supported | Not Supported | Support       |
| **Schemaless**                         | Supported     | Not Supported   | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| **Bulk Pulling (based on WebSocket) ** | Support       | Support         | Support       | Support       | Support       | Support       |
| **DataFrame**                          | Not Supported | Support         | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |

:::warning

- Regardless of the programming language chosen for the connector, TDengine versions 2.0 and above recommend that each thread of a database application create a separate connection. Or create a connection pool based on threads to avoid interference between threads with the "USE statement" state within a connection (but the connection's query and write operations are thread-safe).

:::

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## Install Client Driver

:::info
The client driver needs to be installed if you use the native interface connector on a system that does not have the TDengine server software installed.

:::

### Install

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### Verify

After completing the above installation and configuration and you have confirmed that the TDengine service is up and running, you can execute the TDengine CLI tool to log in.

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