arangodb/Documentation/Books/Manual/Programs

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:

• arangosh
• arangoimport
• arangoexport
• arangodump
• arangorestore
• arangobench
• arangovpack