generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: https://documentation.cloud.tiledb.com/academy/structure/life-sciences/population-genomics/api-reference/cli/,
  https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-VCF
note: TileDB ships no general-purpose CLI for the TileDB Cloud REST API. The one first-party, currently documented
  CLI is tiledbvcf, the population-genomics tool. The former general array CLI (TileDB-Inc/TileDB-CLI-Python) is archived
  and its README directs users to hello@tiledb.com.
clis:
- name: tiledbvcf
  official: true
  status: active
  scope: TileDB-VCF datasets (population genomics)
  docs: https://documentation.cloud.tiledb.com/academy/structure/life-sciences/population-genomics/api-reference/cli/
  source_code: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-VCF
  install: Distributed with TileDB-VCF; the docs page states no install instructions of its own.
  commands:
  - command: create
    description: Creates an empty TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: store
    description: Ingest samples into a TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: export
    description: Exports data from a TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: list
    description: Lists all sample names present in a TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: stat
    description: Prints high-level statistics about a TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: delete
    description: Delete samples from a TileDB-VCF dataset.
  - command: consolidate
    description: Consolidate a TileDB-VCF dataset.
    subcommands:
    - commits
    - fragments
    - fragment_meta
  - command: vacuum
    description: Vacuum a TileDB-VCF dataset.
    subcommands:
    - commits
    - fragments
    - fragment_meta
- name: tiledb (Python CLI)
  official: true
  status: archived
  scope: TileDB array storage manager
  source_code: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/archived-TileDB-CLI-Python
  note: Archived by TileDB; the repo description reads "[archived - please contact hello@tiledb.com]".