# sparkey mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für sparkey in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sparkey
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sparkey
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install sparkey
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: databases/sparkey/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:sparkey
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Constant key-value store, best for frequent read/infrequent write uses
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/spotify/sparkey/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/spotify/sparkey>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- sparkey (Alias)
- sparkey_bench (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.0.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Sparkey is Spotify's simple persistent key-value storage library and CLI for read-heavy systems with infrequent bulk writes. It is intentionally not a distributed database; it is closer to an immutable on-disk hash table.

### Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created in 2013. The official README says Sparkey came out of Spotify hackdays, motivated by services that needed to serve large static data sets with high throughput and low latency after limits in earlier storage choices became problematic.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Sparkey's README documents use inside Spotify for user-facing services backed by periodically generated static storage files. Public packaging is narrower than general-purpose CLIs, but the supplied input shows entries in Homebrew and MacPorts, which fits a C library plus utility used by developers who need local tooling.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers build it with the GNU build system, optionally generate API docs with Doxygen, and use the C library or the `sparkey` utility to inspect and read Sparkey index/log files. The design uses append-only log files and immutable hash index files optimized for bulk creation and concurrent independent readers.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Sparkey appeals to package and systems people because it is deliberately small, file-format-oriented infrastructure: a C library, command-line utility, Java and Python bindings, and explicit tradeoffs around immutability, compression, mmap-style serving, and bulk regeneration rather than online mutation.

### Zeitleiste

- 2013: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2010s: README records Sparkey's origin in Spotify hackdays and production-oriented static-data serving use cases.
- 2020s: Supplied package-manager data lists Homebrew and MacPorts packages.

### Related projects

- The official README lists spotify/sparkey-python and spotify/sparkey-java, and compares Sparkey's motivation against earlier use of CDB and Tokyo Cabinet.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/spotify/sparkey>
- <https://github.com/spotify/sparkey>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spotify/sparkey/master/README.md>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- MacPorts - sparkey: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: databases/sparkey/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sparkey.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sparkey.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph