macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install immudblocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install immudb with Homebrew, Nix
Lightweight, high-speed immutable database. Version 1.11.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-26. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#immudb.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#immudbnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/im/immudb/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Lightweight, high-speed immutable database
Project links
Commands and aliases
- immuadmin
- immuclient
- immudb
history
Project history and usage
immudb is Codenotary's Go database for tamper-evident data history. It combines database interfaces familiar to application developers with cryptographic proofs intended to let clients detect server-side history changes.
Project history
The public repository was created in 2019 and the project reached public 0.6.x releases in 2020. The README frames the core problem as mutable database transactions and logs: immudb instead appends versions and makes the resulting history cryptographically verifiable.
The project evolved from a key-value store into a broader database surface. Its documentation describes key-value, SQL, and document-database modes, plus server, replica, and embedded-library deployments.
Adoption history
immudb's adoption has been strongest in audit-log, compliance, artifact, sensor-data, transaction, and software-supply-chain use cases, all called out by the project README. The official repository also advertises large Docker Hub pull counts, which is a useful signal for a service-oriented database distributed as containers as well as packages.
Homebrew and Nix package metadata expose immudb as a CLI/server package with immudb, immuadmin, and immuclient commands. That makes it easy to experiment with a tamper-evident database from a developer laptop without adopting a hosted service.
How it is used
Typical usage is to run immudb as a server, administer it with immuadmin, and connect with immuclient or application SDKs. Developers use it when they want an append-preserving history, verifiable reads, or an embedded immutable store without operating a blockchain network.
The project is often evaluated beside ledgers and append-only audit systems rather than general OLTP databases, because its package identity is about proof of history as much as data storage.
Why package nerds care
For package nerds, immudb is interesting because it compresses a heavy idea, verifiable data history, into ordinary package-manager install shapes: a daemon, an admin CLI, and a client CLI. It is also a Go database that can be used as either a standalone service or an embedded dependency.
Timeline
- 2019: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2020: v0.6.0 release series published on GitHub.
- 2021: v1.2 release line added rollback and expiration-oriented features in the project's release communications.
- 2025: v1.9.x release line emphasized SQL compatibility, security hardening, and performance work.
Related projects
- AWS QLDB, Trillian-style transparency logs, append-only audit stores, and blockchain ledgers are adjacent systems in the tamper-evident data-history space.
- immuadmin and immuclient are companion commands distributed with the immudb package.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: orange
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service
Signals
- metadata:service
- text:database,client
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
immuadmin | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
immuclient | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
immudb | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.11.1
manager updated2026-06-26
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:immudb |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.11.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://immudb.io/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/codenotary/immudb |
| Last updated | 2026-06-26T09:58:37Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
immudb
nix profile install nixpkgs#immudb- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Immudb
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation