# Install immudb with Homebrew, Nix

Lightweight, high-speed immutable database. Version 1.11.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-26.

## 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
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/immudb>
- **Version:** 1.11.1
- **Source summary:** Lightweight, high-speed immutable database
- **Homepage:** <https://immudb.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/codenotary/immudb>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://docs.immudb.io/master>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/codenotary/immudb/archive/refs/tags/v1.11.1.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-26T09:58:37Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

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

## Build dependencies

- go

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Service: declared
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.11.1
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-26
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/codenotary/immudb
- Upstream latest detected: v1.11.1 (current)
## 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

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** immudb
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## 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


## 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.
- [couchdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/couchdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, document-database.
- [dolt](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dolt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [doltgres](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/doltgres/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [duckdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/duckdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [gdbm](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gdbm/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, key-value.
- [lazysql](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lazysql/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [mariadb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mariadb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [monetdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/monetdb/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, sql.
- [orientdb](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/orientdb/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, data, database, document, document-database.
- [tkrzw](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tkrzw/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: cli, data, database, key, key-value.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/immudb.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/immudb.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph