Tim Sehn

January 23, 2025

Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. What does that mean in practice? We've been building Dolt for over six years now. We've been writing three blog articles a week for five years and five blog articles a week for almost a year. As we've produ...

Neil Macneale

January 22, 2025

Dolt, the world's first SQL database which supports branching and merging , is an open source product built by a startup. As with all startups, we need to move fast and get features into the hands of our users as quickly as possible. Occasionally...

Max Hoffman

January 17, 2025

We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first version-controlled SQL database. This blog discusses how we sped up our table scans by 24% by avoiding interfaces at critical junctions. Interfaces Are Handy They modularize code along lines ...

Nick Tobey

January 16, 2025

Back in September, we announced that we were looking at adding support for Vectors and Vector Indexes to Dolt . It seems like every SQL database these days is going all in on vectors, and here at DoltHub we wanted to not just jump on that band...

Jason Fulghum

January 15, 2025

Version 1.46.0 of Dolt makes two important changes to improve the default root superuser. This default superuser is now persisted to disk, just like any other user account, and it is also now restricted to localhost by default. These changes f...

Dustin Brown

January 8, 2025

Today we're excited to announce the release of DoltLab v2.3.5 which includes support for running DoltLab Enterprise in "offline" mode. Prior versions of DoltLab Enterprise, which support "online" mode only, required customers to allow egress acc...

Liu Liu

January 7, 2025

We're excited to roll out fetching and syncing with remote databases from the Dolt Workbench . For more detailed information about fetching, check out our documentation . Follow this step-by-step guide to see how you can use the Dolt Workbench ...

Jason Fulghum

January 6, 2025

Dolt is a relational database that provides Git-style version control for your data and schema. In addition to all the power of SQL, you can create branches to work on data changes in isolation, merge changes, quickly diff any two points in histo...

Zach Musgrave

January 3, 2025

We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As a database program, Dolt has to deal with lots of large data objects. Oftentimes, these large objects are deeply n...

Tim Sehn

January 2, 2025

Here at DoltHub , we tell users " Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL". We're also quick to remind users that "There is no MySQL code in Dolt". Dolt is built from the storage engine up to be MySQL-compatible but also offer Git-style version...

Tim Sehn

December 30, 2024

Spotify Wrapped popularized a version of the "year in review" format. Now everything is "wrapped". Why can't Dolt be wrapped too? Turns out, Dolt can be wrapped! We're ripping off Spotify's gimmick (but not personalizing it) for Dolt's Year in...

James Cor

December 27, 2024

Dolt is a drop in-replacement for MySQL, which means it can be used with any MySQL-compatible tool. One such tool is Dolphie , a real-time analytics tool for MySQL. Dolphie is an open source tool with a UI that works entirely in the terminal, and...

Max Hoffman

December 23, 2024

Four years ago DoltDB was about 15x slower than MySQL. At the time, we faced skepticism regarding Prolly-tree performance and scalability. Last year, the first production-grade DoltDB aspired to ~2x read latency compared to MySQL. This meant that a...

Zach Musgrave

December 20, 2024

We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. Like any Go program that deals with data, we often find ourselves in need of high-level functions that transform data...

Nick Tobey

December 19, 2024

Suppose you have a directory of files that you want to sync with your friends. When the files change, you want your friends to be able to download just the changes without needing to re-download the entire directory again. And you want this to scal...

Tim Sehn

December 18, 2024

Last week, I wrote an article going over the basic configuration options in Dolt's main SQL Server configuration file, config.yaml . That article was already really long, clocking in at a 23 minute read according to Gatsby, our blog publish...

Liu Liu

December 17, 2024

We’re excited to announce a new feature in the Dolt Workbench : the Remotes tab! This allows you to set up remotes and sync your databases with them by pulling and pushing changes. The Dolt Workbench is available for download in the Mac and...

Brian Hendriks

December 16, 2024

In my last blog I talked about a lot of aspects of taking your Dolt database to production. One of the things I mentioned was the importance of securing your database, but didn't cover the acquisition and deployment of SSL certificates. In th...

James Cor

December 13, 2024

Dolt is a drop in-replacement for MySQL, which means it can be used with any MySQL-compatible tool. One such tool is Mydumper and its counterpart Myloader. Mydumper is a MySQL Logical Backup tool that emphasizes parallelism and performance. I...

Dustin Brown

December 12, 2024

In November, we announced support for continuous integration (CI) testing on DoltHub , which lets users programmatically run checks on their databases. At the time of the announcement, these checks were limited to push events, but today we'...