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 tool application that supports backing up data from a running TDengine cluster and restoring the backed-up data to the same or another running TDengine cluster.
📄️ taosBenchmark
taosBenchmark (formerly known as taosdemo) is a tool for testing the performance of the TDengine product. taosBenchmark can test the performance of TDengine's insert, query, and subscription functions. It can simulate massive data generated by a large number of devices and flexibly control the number of databases, supertables, types and number of tag columns, types and number of data columns, number of subtables, data volume per subtable, data insertion interval, number of working threads in taosBenchmark, whether and how to insert out-of-order data, etc. To accommodate the usage habits of past users, the installation package provides taosdemo as a soft link to taosBenchmark.
