TDengine AI-Native Industrial Data Platform

TDengine describes itself as an industrial AI infrastructure company that offers a modern alternative to legacy data historians such as AVEVA PI System. Its site lists an address in San Jose, California, and the TSDB kernel has passed one million installations with about 25,000 GitHub stars.

The platform combines TDengine TSDB, a high-performance time-series database with an open-source clustered edition, and TDengine IDMP, an industrial data management layer with an industrial ontology and an agent runtime. Data is collected via OPC, MQTT and Kafka, stored and analysed, then used for visualisation, event management and root cause analysis by 13 built-in AI assistants that can connect to any major LLM. It serves energy, manufacturing and utility companies such as Siemens, CATL and Mingyang Smart Wind Energy.

• TDengine TSDB: high-performance time-series database with an open-source clustered edition.
• TDengine IDMP: industrial data management with an industrial ontology and atomic applications.
• AI assistants: 13 built-in assistants for queries, dashboards, root cause analysis and reports.
• Knowledge base: turns private documents into a searchable knowledge graph for AI agents.
• MCP exposure: more than 50 system capabilities callable by external AI agents.
• Flexible deployment: public cloud, on-premises or edge-cloud with OPC, MQTT and Kafka ingestion.

• Solar farm and battery storage operators in Vietnam monitoring inverters and trackers in real time.
• Factories in industrial parks replacing PI-style historians for SCADA and PLC data.
• Utilities and water companies running root cause analysis on alarm data with AI assistants.

• More than 10x the performance of general-purpose databases and storage cost cut to about one tenth, per the vendor.
• Scales to hundreds of millions of data collection points.
• Zendure scaled to 1.17 million devices and cut storage costs by 80%.
• Free Tier with full functionality for up to 5,000 tags lowers the entry barrier.

Manufacturers and energy operators are replacing costly legacy historians with open, cloud-ready time-series platforms and adding AI agents on top of plant data. Rapid growth of solar, storage and factory automation in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, raises demand for scalable sensor data infrastructure.

Site address: 3031 Tisch Way, San Jose, CA. Over 1,000 industrial companies and 800,000 instances worldwide. Alliance with Deloitte India. Certified SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017. Runs a reseller and integrator program. Chinese site at taosdata.com.