# Install dynomite with Homebrew Generic dynamo implementation for different k-v storage engines. Version 0.6.22 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:dynomite ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install dynomite ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:dynomite - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.6.22 - **Source summary:** Generic dynamo implementation for different k-v storage engines - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T19:03:08-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - dynomite (alias) - dynomite-hash-tool (alias) - dynomite-test (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 0.6.22 ## Project history and usage Dynomite is Netflix's distributed Dynamo-inspired layer for key-value storage engines and protocols such as Redis and Memcached, focused on high availability and cross-datacenter replication. ### Project history Netflix created the public Dynomite repository in 2013. The README says Dynomite was inspired by Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and was designed as a thin distributed layer over storage engines that do not themselves provide high availability or cross-datacenter replication. The project documentation describes Redis and Memcached as supported protocols and emphasizes multi-datacenter replication, high availability, few moving parts, and performance. The README also records a branch workflow where version-numbered branches are considered stable while the `dev` branch is the active development branch. ### Adoption history Dynomite's adoption story is tied to Netflix infrastructure and the broader post-Dynamo ecosystem of eventually consistent key-value systems. In package managers, it is a specialized service binary rather than a general CLI; Homebrew keeps it available for local testing, experiments, and operators who need the daemon and helper tools. ### How it is used Operators run `dynomite` with a YAML configuration file, commonly `dynomite.yml`, specifying datacenter, rack, tokens, seeds, listen addresses, datastore protocol, server pools, gossip, encryption scope, and statistics settings. The package also includes hash and test helper tools. ### Why package nerds care Dynomite matters to package nerds because it packages the Dynamo paper lineage into a concrete Unix service around existing key-value stores. It is a good example of infrastructure software whose formula exposes a daemon, config file, test mode, and helper binaries rather than a developer-facing one-shot command. ### Timeline - 2007: Amazon publishes the Dynamo paper that inspires Dynomite's design direction. - 2013: Netflix creates the public Dynomite repository. - 2010s: Dynomite documents Redis and Memcached backends, multi-datacenter replication, and versioned stable branches. - 2026: Homebrew packages Dynomite 0.6.22. ### Related projects - Related projects include Amazon Dynamo, Redis, Memcached, Apache Cassandra, Riak, Netflix internal infrastructure projects, and other distributed key-value stores built around replication, partitioning, and high availability. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dynomite. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: dynomite.yml ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dynomite.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/dynomite.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - cross-ecosystem install command graph