Installation and the First Query - Neo4j Essentials - page 23

Tools and utilities for administrators/
developers
Neo4j comes with various tools and utilities which ease the life of a developer. Let's talk
about each of them and see how they are helpful to developers:
• <$NEO4J_HOME>/bin/neo4j : This utility is used to start, stop, restart, or get
the current status of the Neo4j server, which is not installed as a service and is ex-
ecuted as a standalone application. Here are the different options available with
this utility:
◦ neo4j console : This option starts the Neo4j server as a foreground
process.
◦ neo4j start : This option starts the Neo4j server in a different process.
◦ neo4j stop : This option shuts down the Neo4j server gracefully.
◦ neo4j status : This option shows the current status of the Neo4j serv-
er.
• <$NEO4J_HOME>/bin/neo4j-installer : This utility is used to install/un-
install the Neo4j server (as a service) on/from the local system. Here are the differ-
ent options available with this utility:
◦ neo4j-installer install : This option is used to install the Neo4j
server as a service on the local system.
◦ neo4j-installer remove : This option is used to uninstall/remove
the server from the local system.
◦ neo4j-installer status : This option provides the status of the
Neo4j server.
◦ neo4j-installer usage : This option prints the various parameters
available for use.
◦ neo4j-installer start : This option starts the service of the Neo4j
server.
◦ neo4j-installer stop : This option gracefully stops the service of
the Neo4j server.
• <$NEO4J_HOME>/bin/neo4j-shell : Here, neo4j-shell is a powerful
interactive shell used to interact with the Neo4j database. It is used to perform
CRUD operations on graphs.
Neo4jshell can be executed locally on the same machine where we have installed
the Neo4j server or by remotely connecting Neo4j shell to a remote sever.