# TDengine: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 13 judge labels across 1 categories by 8 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/tdengine/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time series databases | 0% | 12 | 23% | 13 |

## What the models said for it

- "TDengine — Purpose-built for IoT, better scale performance" (Kimi K2, Time series DBs)
- "Industrial IoT fleet management at the edge? → TDengine" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Time series DBs)
- "or TDengine for IoT‑heavy workloads" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Time series DBs)
- "For Industrial/Edge-Focused: TDengine" (Kimi K2, Time series DBs)

## And against it

- "community is tiny outside of China; AGPL license" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Time series DBs)
- "Patch or migrate: TDengine (CVE-2026-42542)" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Time series DBs)
- "AGPL is copyleft e.g. TDengine" (Muse Glimmer 30B, Time series DBs)

## In its own words

What TDengine's own pages state, read 2026-10-05. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Modern Alternative to Traditional Data Historians (https://tdengine.com/)
- For: industrial companies worldwide (https://tdengine.com/)
- Price stated: Free forever up to 5,000 tags (https://tdengine.com/)
- Starting price: Free (https://tdengine.com/pricing)
- Free plan or trial: Free forever up to 5,000 tags (https://tdengine.com/)
- Integrations claimed: 50 (https://tdengine.com/)
- Certifications: SOC 2® Type II certified, ISO 27001 certified, 21 CFR Pat 11 Technical Controls, SOC 2 compliant, ISO 27001 compliant, ISO 27017 compliant, 21 CFR Part 11 Technical Controls, SOC 2
- Hosting: public cloud, on premises, edge-cloud deployments, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- Customers named: Ignition, Kepware, EMQ, Casne Engineering, Seeq, Prospective, Ontopic, Atsign

## What it publishes

Every page tdengine.com exposes, read 2026-10-05: 967 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 407 pages, 55 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-28
- webinar or virtual event: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-08-04
- conference or event: 13 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-12
- comparison: 28 pages, 2 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-12
- template or tool: 23 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 4 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-01-19
- news or press: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2023-01-10
- Recent: 2026-09-28 blog: Three days built an industrial alarm management app https://tdengine.com/three-days-built-an-industrial-alarm-management-app
- Recent: 2026-09-17 blog: 21 cfr part 11 https://tdengine.com/21-cfr-part-11
- Recent: 2026-09-12 blog: Tsdb for zendure home energy storage https://tdengine.com/tsdb-for-zendure-home-energy-storage
- Recent: 2026-09-05 blog: Servo system testing eha defect tracing https://tdengine.com/servo-system-testing-eha-defect-tracing
- Recent: 2026-09-05 blog: Specialty paper quality web break risk detection https://tdengine.com/specialty-paper-quality-web-break-risk-detection
- Recent: 2026-09-05 blog: Wastewater treatment effluent root cause tracing https://tdengine.com/wastewater-treatment-effluent-root-cause-tracing

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.