!CHAPTER How to invoke AQL 

You can run AQL queries from your application via the HTTP REST API. The full
API description is available at [HTTP Interface for AQL Query Cursors](../HttpAqlQueryCursor/README.md).

The ArangoDB Web Interface has a [specific tab for AQL queries execution](AqlWithWebInterface.md).

You can run [AQL queries from the ArangoDB Shell](AqlWithArangosh.md) with the  *_query*  and  *_createStatement*  methods of the  *db*  object. 
This chapter also describes how to use bind parameters, statistics, counting and cursors with arangosh.