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Why Developers Choose TDengine
Over 350k Installations and 21k GitHub Stars
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TDengine is the only time series database to solve the high-cardinality issue, supporting billions of data collection points while outperforming other time series databases in ingestion, querying, and compression.
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TDengine provides the six elements — distributed design, scalability, elasticity, resiliency, observability, and automation — required of a true cloud native database and can run on public, private, or hybrid clouds.
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TDengine significantly reduces the effort to deploy and maintain a time series database. It provides simple interfaces and seamless integrations for third-party tools, giving users and developers easy access to data.
TDengine’s Open Source Journey
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