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TDengine
San Jose, California, United States
What it is
TDengine is an industrial data platform combining data ingestion, storage, analytics, modeling, visualization, and AI applications. Its two core components are TDengine TSDB and TDengine IDMP. TSDB is a distributed time-series database with caching, stream processing, and data subscription. The platform connects to industrial sources including OPC, MQTT, and Kafka, with built-in ETL for cleaning and transforming data. It provides a REST API described by OpenAPI, plus JDBC, ODBC, Kafka, MQTT, iframe embedding, and an Excel Add-In. Listed integrations include tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Power BI, Tableau, Spark, Node-RED, and Ignition. Self-hosted installations can run at the edge, in containers or virtual machines, on local servers, or across public, private, and hybrid clouds. TDengine Cloud is a managed service on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The TSDB-OSS edition is open source under AGPL and includes clustering. The free self-hosted tier covers up to 5,000 tags; Starter is $970 a month for a managed cloud service. A 7,500-tag self-hosted annual license is $12,500 a year, while the perpetual license is $31,250, paid once. The maker claims its architecture exceeds general-purpose databases by more than 10 times in write and query performance while reducing storage costs to one tenth.
For and against
For
- Distributed time-series database includes caching and stream processing
- Connects to industrial sources including OPC and MQTT
- Offers self-hosted and managed-cloud deployment options
- TSDB-OSS is open source and includes clustering
Against
- Free tier is limited to 5,000 tags
- Starter costs $970 a month
- Standard Support is included with annual plans
- Premium Support costs extra
The verdict
TDengine combines time-series storage with industrial ingestion, integrations, and deployment choices. Review the tag limits, licensing options, and support terms against your deployment requirements.
Who it suits
TDengine is designed for industrial enterprises and organizations using traditional data historians or legacy industrial IoT platforms. It may suit teams that need time-series data handling with self-hosted or managed-cloud deployment options.
Plans and prices
Self-hosted Free Tier
up to 5,000 tags · optional support $3,375/year · HA +30%
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
TDengine Cloud Starter
5,000 tags · managed AWS, Azure or Google Cloud service
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
TDengine Cloud Small
10,000 tags · managed cloud infrastructure
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
TDengine Cloud Medium
20,000 tags · managed cloud infrastructure
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
Self-hosted 7,500-tag annual license
7,500 tags · standard support included · HA +30%
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
Self-hosted 10,000-tag annual license
10,000 tags · standard support included · HA +30%
Read 14 Oct 2026 · tdengine.com
Free Tier
up to 5,000 tags · self-hosted
Read 30 Sep 2026 · tdengine.com
Starter
5,000 tags · fully managed cloud
Read 30 Sep 2026 · tdengine.com
Starter
5,000 tags · fully managed cloud
Read 30 Sep 2026 · tdengine.com
On the record
- Analytics and AI
- Included capabilities include forecasting, anomaly detection, data imputation, natural-language data exploration and AI-generated root-cause analysis.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API and SDKs
- Documentation covers a REST API and language connectors with sample code, while the repository exposes client libraries and Rust bindings.docs.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Asset modeling
- TDengine IDMP provides tree-structured industrial entity definitions, semantic contextualization and reusable templates for equipment and processes.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Cloud providers
- TDengine Cloud is offered as a managed service on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.tdengine.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn identifies TDengine as a privately held software-development company founded in 2017 with 51–200 employees and headquarters in Los Gatos, California.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- TDengine's About page reports more than one million global installations and over 25,000 GitHub stars.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Compliance claims
- TDengine states that its policies align with SOC 2 and ISO 27001/27017 and offers reports or certificates on request.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Core components
- The platform consists of TDengine TSDB and TDengine IDMP.tdengine.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Core database features
- TDengine TSDB includes built-in caching, stream processing and data subscription to reduce the need for separate infrastructure components.docs.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Data model
- TDengine uses one-table-per-data-collection-point, super-table and virtual-table models designed for time-series storage efficiency.docs.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Self-hosted deployments can run at the edge, in containers or virtual machines, on local servers, or in public, private, or hybrid clouds.tdengine.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment options
- TDengine can run self-hosted at the edge, in containers or VMs, on local servers, in public/private/hybrid clouds, or as managed TDengine Cloud.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Developer access
- TDengine provides a REST API described by OpenAPI and supports JDBC, ODBC, Kafka, MQTT, iframe embedding, and an Excel Add-In.tdengine.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- Official documentation spans installation, SQL, data modeling, ingestion, querying, subscriptions, stream processing, security, operations, integrations and kernel design.docs.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Edge-cloud synchronization
- Enterprise editions provide automated replication between edge and cloud deployments for cross-site consolidation.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Enterprise limitations
- Compared with OSS, Enterprise adds tiered storage, incremental backup, views, replication, data sharing, PI/MQTT/OPC integrations, privilege controls, encryption, auditing and IP whitelisting.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Industrial connectors
- The platform advertises zero-code connectors for MQTT, Kafka, OPC, PI System and other industrial or enterprise sources.tdengine.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Industrial data sources
- TDengine connects to OPC, MQTT, Kafka, and other industrial data sources, with built-in ETL for cleaning and transformation.tdengine.com · read 30 Sep 2026
