# Install kitchen-sync with Homebrew, Nix, chocolatey

Fast efficiently sync database without dumping & reloading. Version 2.21 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#ks.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kitchen-sync
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kitchen-sync
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#ks
```

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

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install KS
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: KS from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','kindle'

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kitchen-sync
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.21
- **Source summary:** Fast efficiently sync database without dumping & reloading
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/willbryant/kitchen_sync>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/willbryant/kitchen_sync>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-25T13:37:47+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ks (alias)
- ks_mysql (alias)
- ks_postgresql (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.21
## Project history and usage

Kitchen Sync is a command-line database synchronization tool focused on making or updating a unidirectional database copy without dumping and reloading the entire source.

### Project history

The repository README frames Kitchen Sync around fast logical synchronization for developer, test, remote-office, and cross-database copy workflows. It supports MySQL-family databases and PostgreSQL, can work over SSH, can synchronize only changed data, and can filter sensitive columns as data is copied.

### Adoption history

Kitchen Sync has a modest but concrete package footprint, with the input facts listing Homebrew, Chocolatey, and Nix packaging. That distribution profile fits an operations-oriented CLI used by developers and database teams rather than a broad framework community.

### How it is used

Users run `ks` with source and target database URLs, optional filters, and worker settings to update a target database. The README example shows cross-engine synchronization from MySQL to PostgreSQL with a filtering file.

### Why package nerds care

Kitchen Sync is interesting as a small systems package because it addresses a dull but costly workflow: refreshing large database copies without the time, write amplification, and downtime of full dump-and-load cycles.

### Timeline

- 2020-03-14: GitHub release candidates 2.0rc1 through 2.0rc3 were published.
- 2023-10-29: GitHub release v2.19 was published.
- 2023-10-30: GitHub release v2.20 was published.
- 2025-04-15: GitHub release v2.21 was published.

### Related projects

- Kitchen Sync is related by use case to database dump/restore tooling, logical replication workflows, SSH tunneling, MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, and PostgreSQL.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/willbryant/kitchen_sync/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kitchen-sync>
- <https://github.com/willbryant/kitchen_sync>
- <https://github.com/willbryant/kitchen_sync/releases>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - ks: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ks/ks/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - KS: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: KS from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','kindle'


## Combined YAML source

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