Installing ArangoDB on macOS

    1. Homebrew
    2. (starting from v3.4.0)

    When installing ArangoDB via the macOS package manager Homebrew, only the Community Edition is available.

    The Homebrew installation is updated a few days after the official release of a new version.

    If you are using homebrew, then you can install the latest released stable version of ArangoDB using brew as follows:

    This will install the current stable version of ArangoDB and all dependencies within your Homebrew tree. Note that the server will be installed as:

    <VERSION> is a placeholder for the actual version number, e.g. 3.5.0.

    You can start the server by running the command:

    The ArangoDB shell will be installed as:

    1. /usr/local/Cellar/arangodb/<VERSION>/bin/arangosh

    You can uninstall ArangoDB using:

    1. brew uninstall arangodb

    However, in case you started ArangoDB using the launchctl, you need to unload it before uninstalling the server:

    Then remove the LaunchAgent:

      If the latest ArangoDB version is not shown in Homebrew, you also need to update Homebrew executing the command brew update.

      • The ArangoDB Starter is not included in v3.3.x, but shipped with all 3.4.x versions.
      • The Commandline argument parsing does not accept blanks in filenames; the CLI version below does.

      • If you need to change server endpoint while starting homebrew version, you can edit arangod.conf file and uncomment line with endpoint needed, e.g.:

        1. [server]

      You can install the application in your application folder.

      Starting the application will start the server and open a terminal window showing you the log-file.

      Note that it is possible to install both, the homebrew version and the command-line app. You should, however, edit the configuration files of one version and change the port used.

      Starting from v3.4.0 a tar.gz package is also available for macOS.

      Visit the official page of the ArangoDB website and download the tar.gz archive for macOS.

      To install, just extract the archive.