The “db” Object

The db object is available in arangosh bydefault, and can also be imported and used in Foxx services.

db.name returns a collection object for the collection name.

The following methods exists on the _db object:

Database

• db._createDatabase(name, options, users)
• db._databases()
• db._dropDatabase(name, options, users)

• db._useDatabase(name)Indexes

• db._index(index)

• db._dropIndex(index)Properties

• db._id()

• db._isSystem()
• db._name()
• db._path()

• db._version()Collection

• db._collection(name)

• db._collections()
• db._create(name)
• db._drop(name)

• db._truncate(name)AQL

• db._createStatement(query)

• db._query(query)
• db._explain(query)

• db._parse(query)Document

• db._document(object)

• db._exists(object)
• db._remove(selector)
• db._replace(selector,data)

• db._update(selector,data)Views

• db._view(name)

• db._views()
• db._createView(name, type, properties)

• db._dropView(name)Global

• db._engine()

• db._engineStats()
• db._executeTransaction()