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High-level operations

The following high-level operations are described here after:

FOR: Iterate over a collection or View, all elements of an array or traverse a graph
RETURN: Produce the result of a query.
FILTER: Restrict the results to elements that match arbitrary logical conditions.
SEARCH: Query the (full-text) index of an ArangoSearch View
SORT: Force a sort of the array of already produced intermediate results.
LIMIT: Reduce the number of elements in the result to at most the specified number, optionally skip elements (pagination).
LET: Assign an arbitrary value to a variable.
COLLECT: Group an array by one or multiple group criteria. Can also count and aggregate.
REMOVE: Remove documents from a collection.
UPDATE: Partially update documents in a collection.
REPLACE: Completely replace documents in a collection.
INSERT: Insert new documents into a collection.
UPSERT: Update/replace an existing document, or create it in the case it does not exist.
WITH: Specify collections used in a query (at query begin only).