# 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.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:immudb
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install immudb
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#immudb
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/im/immudb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:immudb
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11.1
- **Source summary:** Lightweight, high-speed immutable database
- **Homepage:** <https://immudb.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/codenotary/immudb>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-26T09:58:37Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- immuadmin (alias)
- immuclient (alias)
- immudb (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.11.1
## 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

- <https://api.github.com/repos/codenotary/immudb/releases>
- <https://docs.immudb.io/master/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/immudb>
- <https://github.com/codenotary/immudb>
- <https://immudb.io/>
- input.json source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - immudb: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/im/immudb/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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