ArangoDB: Setup the database to experiment

In this post, I am going to show how to create a databse and add an user to it.

 

Step 1: Connect to aranogoDB server by executing the command arangosh in terminal.

$ arangosh 
Please specify a password: 

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arangosh (ArangoDB 3.7.11 [darwin] 64bit, using build , VPack 0.1.33, RocksDB 6.8.0, ICU 64.2, V8 7.9.317, OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
Copyright (c) ArangoDB GmbH

Command-line history will be persisted when the shell is exited. You can use `--console.history false` to turn this off
Connected to ArangoDB 'http+tcp://127.0.0.1:8529, version: 3.7.11 [SINGLE, server], database: '_system', username: 'root'

Type 'tutorial' for a tutorial or 'help' to see common examples
127.0.0.1:8529@_system>

 

Step 2: Create a database by executing the below command.

db._createDatabase("example");

127.0.0.1:8529@_system> db._createDatabase("example");
true

 

Step 3: Create a user with name krishna and password tiger by executing bellow commands.

var users = require("@arangodb/users");

users.save("krishna", "tiger");

 

127.0.0.1:8529@_system> var users = require("@arangodb/users");

127.0.0.1:8529@_system> users.save("krishna", "tiger");
{ 
  "user" : "krishna", 
  "active" : true, 
  "extra" : { 
  }, 
  "code" : 201 
}

Step 4: Grant database access to the user Krishna by executing below command.

users.grantDatabase("krishna", "example");

127.0.0.1:8529@_system> users.grantDatabase("krishna", "example");

Step 5: Exit from the shell by executing the command exit.

127.0.0.1:8529@_system> exit

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Connect to example database with username Krishna

Open terminal and execute below command.

arangosh --server.username "krishna" --server.database example

$arangosh --server.username "krishna" --server.database example
Please specify a password: 

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 / _` | '__/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \/ __| '_ \ 
| (_| | | | (_| | | | | (_| | (_) \__ \ | | |
 \__,_|_|  \__,_|_| |_|\__, |\___/|___/_| |_|
                       |___/                 

arangosh (ArangoDB 3.7.11 [darwin] 64bit, using build , VPack 0.1.33, RocksDB 6.8.0, ICU 64.2, V8 7.9.317, OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021)
Copyright (c) ArangoDB GmbH

Command-line history will be persisted when the shell is exited. You can use `--console.history false` to turn this off
Connected to ArangoDB 'http+tcp://127.0.0.1:8529, version: 3.7.11 [SINGLE, server], database: 'example', username: 'krishna'

Type 'tutorial' for a tutorial or 'help' to see common examples
127.0.0.1:8529@example> 

Connect to example database using web interface

Open the url ‘http://127.0.0.1:8529’ in browser.

Login with username krishna and password tiger.

 

Select the database example and click on the button ‘Select DB:example’.

 

What is the default database?

_system (All the system metadata store here)

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