Tools

This section provides detailed explanations of the functions and usage of the main tools in TDengine.

📄️ TDengine CLI

The TDengine command line program (hereinafter referred to as TDengine CLI) is the simplest and most commonly used tool for users to operate and interact with TDengine instances. It requires the installation of either the TDengine Server package or the TDengine Client package before use.

📄️ taosdump

taosdump is a TDengine data backup/recovery tool provided for open source users, and the backed up data files adopt the standard Apache AVRO

📄️ taosBenchmark

TaosBenchmark is a performance benchmarking tool for TDengine products, providing insertion, query, and subscription performance testing for TDengine products, and outputting performance indicators.

📄️ taosgen

taosgen is a performance benchmarking tool for time-series data products, supporting data generation, write performance testing, and more. taosgen uses "jobs" as the basic unit, where a job is user-defined and consists of a set of operations to accomplish a specific task. Each job contains one or more steps and can be connected to other jobs via dependencies, forming a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) execution flow for flexible and efficient task orchestration.