# Install cql with Homebrew Decentralized SQL database with blockchain features. Version 0.8.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:cql ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install cql ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:cql - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.8.1 - **Source summary:** Decentralized SQL database with blockchain features - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - cql (cli) - cql (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.8.1 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL - Upstream latest detected: v0.8.1 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## 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. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## 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: ~/.cql/config.yaml, config.yaml ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.cql/private.key, private.key ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** cql - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [h2](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/h2/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases, sql. - [apache-geode](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/apache-geode/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [cassandra](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cassandra/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [cdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [check_postgres](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/check-postgres/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [fourstore](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fourstore/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [garnet](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/garnet/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [gh-ost](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gh-ost/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, databases. - [cql-proxy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cql-proxy/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, cql, data, database. - [mdbtools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mdbtools/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, data, database, databases, sql. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cql.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/cql.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph