Programs & Tools

The full ArangoDB package ships with the following programs and tools:

Binary name	Brief description
`arangod`	ArangoDB server. This server program is intended to run as a daemon process / service to serve the various client connections to the server via TCP / HTTP. It also provides a web interface.
`arangodb`	ArangoDB Starter for easy deployment of ArangoDB instances.
`arangosh`	ArangoDB shell. A client that implements a read-eval-print loop (REPL) and provides functions to access and administrate the ArangoDB server.
`arangoimport`	Bulk importer for the ArangoDB server. It supports JSON and CSV.
`arangoexport`	Bulk exporter for the ArangoDB server. It supports JSON, CSV and XML.
`arangodump`	Tool to create backups of an ArangoDB database.
`arangorestore`	Tool to load backups back into an ArangoDB database.
`arango-dfdb`	Datafile debugger for ArangoDB (MMFiles storage engine only). It is primarily intended to be used during development of ArangoDB.
`arangobench`	Benchmark and test tool. It can be used for performance and server function testing.
`arangovpack`	Utility to convert VelocyPack data to JSON.

The client package comes with a subset of programs and tools: