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Install cql with Homebrew

Decentralized SQL database with blockchain features. Version 0.8.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install cql

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Decentralized SQL database with blockchain features

Commands and aliases

  • cql

history

Project history and usage

CovenantSQL, packaged as the `cql` command, was an open-source attempt to combine SQL database access with blockchain-style decentralization, permissions, and immutable query history.

Project history

The official docs presented CovenantSQL as a decentralized SQL database with blockchain features and described the `cql` command-line toolset as the terminal interface for accounts, wallet balances, and databases.

Adoption history

The project reached package-manager users mainly through its CLI tooling, including Homebrew. Its public documentation and release pages point to an experimental database platform rather than a mainstream Cassandra or PostgreSQL replacement.

How it is used

The `cql` tool manages CovenantSQL accounts, wallets, database operations, and local servers. Its docs emphasize a private key plus config file workflow, with `~/.cql/config.yaml` as the default config path.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, `cql` is interesting because it packaged a full blockchain-database experiment as a single terminal tool, with config, private key handling, and database-management subcommands exposed through one executable.

Timeline

  • 2019: Official English docs described CovenantSQL and the `cql` command-line toolset.
  • 2020: The GitHub releases page listed v0.6.0 as a rehearsal release.

Related projects

  • The official introduction compared CQL with Amazon QLDB for ledger-style databases and with Filecoin/IPFS as a decentralized-storage analogy.

security posture

Risk level: blue

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

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

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

Signals

  • text:database,sql

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

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

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.cql/config.yamlconfig.yaml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix
~/.cql/private.keyprivate.key

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cqlcliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.8.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.8.1

https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cql
Version0.8.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cql
Homepagehttps://covenantsql.io
Repositoryhttps://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL
Upstream docshttps://developers.covenantsql.io/docs/en/cql_intro
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.1.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecql
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • cql-proxyPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, cql, data, database.

Same workflow

  • h2Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases, sql.
  • apache-geodeShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases.
  • cassandraShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases.
  • cdbShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases.
  • check_postgresShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases.
  • fourstoreShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases.

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.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment