Starting & Accessing Document methods

./arangod /path/to/my/db start server [Link](document) get document by identifier

[Link] admin front end [Link](data) create new document
./arangosh start ArangoDB shell [Link](document, data) replace existing document
start_pretty_print(); format output nicely [Link](document) partially update
arangod --console --[Link] error
start emergency console [Link](document) remove document
/path/to/my/db
db._document(document|document-handle) get document by identifier|handle
arangod frequently used starting options db._replace(document|document-handle,data) replace existing document
--[Link] path/to/file set log file or + for stdout db._update(document) partially update document
--[Link] set log level: fatal, error, warning, info, debug, trace db._remove(document) remove document
--[Link] protocol://address:port set address and port for Clients
Edges
Database management methods [Link](document) save new edge
db._createDatabase(database-name) create database [Link](vertex) find edges connected to vertex
db._dropDatabase(database-name) drop a database [Link](vertices) find all edges ending in vertex (inbound)
db._useDatabase(database-name) change into an existing database [Link](vertices) find all edges starting at vertex (outbound)
db._databases() list all databases
Collection methods
Collection management methods [Link]() select all documents and return cursor
db._create(collection-name, properties) create collection (with optional properties) [Link]() select a random document
db._createEdgeCollection(collection-name,
create an edge collection [Link](example) select all documents that match example
properties)
db._collection(collection-name|collection-id) get collection [Link](example) select first document that matches example
db._collections() List all collections [Link](example) remove all documents that match example
[Link]
[Link]-name get a collection by name replace all documents that match example
(example, newValue)
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db._drop(collection-name|collection-id) drop collection with indexes update all documents that match example
(example, newValue)
db._truncate(collection-name|collection-id) remove collection, keep indexes [Link]() return the number of documents
[Link]() convert the collection into an array of documents
Collection methods
[Link]() drop collection with indexes AQL queries
[Link]() remove documents, keep indexes db._query(query).toArray() executes AQL query
[Link]() get all document properties db._query(query, bindParameters).toArray() executes AQL query with bind parameters
[Link](newProperties) set all newProperties db._explain(query, bindParameters) prints the execution plan of the query
[Link]() get all collection figures
[Link]() load collection into memory
[Link]() start to unload a collection
[Link](new-name) rename collection to new-name