TDengine
Modern Alternative to Traditional Data Historians
TDengine is an AI-native industrial data platform that combines TDengine TSDB, a high-performance time-series database, with TDengine IDMP, an industrial data management platform. It addresses the needs of organizations running traditional data historians or legacy industrial IoT platforms, covering data collection, storage, real-time analysis, visualization, event management, root cause analysis, and AI-powered insights in one system.
The platform connects to sources such as OPC, MQTT, Kafka, and PI System through built-in connectors and ETL. TDengine TSDB includes stream processing, data subscription, read caching, edge-cloud synchronization, and TDgpt for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection. TDengine IDMP adds industrial ontology, a no-code process analytics workbench, knowledge management, and an Industrial Agent Runtime that connects to major LLMs via MCP, with built-in AI assistants. It runs on edge, on-premises, or cloud deployments and integrates through JDBC, ODBC, REST API, Grafana, and Power BI.
TDengine is packaged as TDengine All-in-One, with a free tier for up to 5,000 tags suitable for evaluation or small production use, and annual or perpetual licenses above that threshold, with optional annual support. TDengine TSDB-OSS is available as open source, and the company states the platform is free for SMEs.
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