Run Aerospike Quick Look

This page describes how to get started using Aerospike Quick Look (AQL)

Get started

To run AQL, start with the following command:

aql

For example, to list all the namespaces in your database instance, enter the following command:

show namespaces

There are a number of options that you can use with the aql command.

Option	Purpose
`-V, --version`	Print AQL version information.
`-O, --options`	Print command-line options message.
`-E, --help`	Print command-line options message and AQL commands documentation.
`-c, --command=cmd`	Execute the specified command.
`-f, --file=path`	Execute the commands in the specified file.
`-e, --echo`	Enable echoing of commands. Default: disabled.
`-v, --verbose`	Enable verbose output. Default: disabled.

You can configure AQL using a configuration file. See Aerospike tools configuration file for more information.

The following options control configuration file behavior:

Option	Default	Description
`--no-config-file`	disabled	Don’t read any configuration file. The configuration file options `--no-config-file` and `only-config-file` are mutually exclusive.
`--instance SUFFIX`	-	In the configuration file, you can specify a group of clusters that share a common suffix with the `--instance` option. Refer to Instances for more information.
`--config-file PATH`	-	Read this file after default configuration file.
`--only-config-file PATH`	-	Read only this configuration file. The configuration file options `--no-config-file` and `only-config-file` are mutually exclusive.