Installation

Head to arangodb.com/download, select your operating system and download ArangoDB. You may also follow the instructions on how to install with a package manager, if available.

If you installed a binary package under Linux, the server is automatically started.

If you installed ArangoDB using homebrew under macOS, start the server by running /usr/local/sbin/arangod. It is a symlink for /usr/local/Cellar/arangodb/<VERSION>/sbin/arangod. If it is missing or broken, you may regenerate it with brew link --overwrite arangodb.

If you installed ArangoDB under Windows as a service, the server is automatically started. Otherwise, run the arangod.exe located in the installation folder’s bin directory. You may have to run it as administrator to grant it write permissions to C:\Program Files.

For more in-depth information on how to install ArangoDB, as well as available startup parameters, installation in a cluster and so on, see Installation and Deployment.

Securing the installation

The default installation contains one database _system and a user named root.

Debian based packages and the Windows installer will ask for a password during the installation process. Red-Hat based packages will set a random password. For all other installation packages you need to execute

shell> arango-secure-installation

This will ask for a root password and sets this password.