- REFERENCE9 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…
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- REFERENCEFEATURE RELEASE9 min read
An Introduction to Adaptive Encoding
Arguably the most important design decision in a database is one that most users probably never think about: how your data is actually stored on disk. On one hand, the storage format doesn't matter to the user because it's completely abstracted ...
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Dolt Archives Status Update
The Dolt database is the first SQL Database with Git-style branching and merging . One natural consequence of this is the need to store data which grows proportionally to the number of writes over the database's lifetime. For our users to be…
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Stats Version 2
Dolt is the first version controlled relational database. Among other things, reliable databases have fast and reliable query plans. We can make most queries fast with combinations of macro structural rearrangements like filter pushing and column...
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We've Been Conned: The truth about Big LLM
This is an intervention (but mostly a rant). Maybe it's for you, or maybe it's for me—perhaps it's for both of us. Regardless, it's time we face reality and stop pretending we're already living in the year 3000. We're being conned by Big LLM,...
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Selling Software: SaaS Tools Review
Last week, we introduced a new blog series called "Selling Software" , named after the Netflix smash hit, Selling Sunset . DoltHub happens to be based in LA, not too far from Sunset. Tim , DoltHub's CEO, and I handle most of the selling here ...
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Dolt for Beginners: SQL Select
The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...
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Life as a Go developer on Windows
We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. We build release binaries for all three major operating systems: Linux, OS X, and of course Windows. (Sorry Plan9). And in fact we have customers on all of these...
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Hosted Dolt's Hidden GraphQL API
Hosted Dolt is a cloud-deployed Dolt database. The application itself runs on React and is backed by a GraphQL server. DoltHub and DoltLab have an official API, documented here . Hosted Dolt is meant more for serving live queries rather than bu...
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DoltHub SQL Assistant Technical Details
Last week, we announced the DoltHub SQL Assistant , an LLM-powered SQL assistant that helps you write SQL queries on DoltHub. In today's post, we'll dive into the technical details of how DoltHub's SQL Assistant works behind the scenes. ...
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Selling Software: Introduction
We're introducing a new blog series called "Selling Software", named after the Netflix smash hit, Selling Sunset . DoltHub happens to be based in LA, not too far from Sunset. Brian , DoltHub's Head of Sales, and I handle most of the selling her...
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Vibe Coding with `reset --hard`
Dolt is the world's first SQL database which supports version control features branching and merging . As a business, we'd be foolish not to pay attention to the new frontier of computing: AI. The promise to make us, or our customers, 10X more…
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Vibe Coding with Cursor
All the technology world is abuzz about AI. In particular, how it's going to take my job as a software developer. I like my job, and I don't really want to give it to a robot, so I thought I'd try out some of this AI hotness myself. I wanted to see...
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GCP Hosted Dolt using Private Service Connect
When we first released Hosted Dolt , every deployment that was created was reachable using the public internet. For some users, this was a non-starter. They needed to ensure that their database was only reachable from their own VPC. In July of la...
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Dolt Server Connection Improvements
Here at DoltHub, we've been building the world's first Git inspired SQL database. Along the way we've operated as you would expect a startup to operate - we've been iterating quickly and shipping features as soon as possible. One little gap we've…
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Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Push
The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...
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Announcing an LLM-Powered SQL Assistant on DoltHub
Today we're excited to announce a new feature on DoltHub : an LLM-powered SQL assistant 🤖! If you've been keeping up with our recent posts, you know we've been experimenting with integrating AI into some of our products and workflows. Our goa...
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Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Workbench
The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...
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A Deep-Dive on Session-Aware GC
A few weeks ago, we announced the availability of automatic garbage collection in Dolt sql-server . This blog post is a quick follow up outlining some of the implementation challenges in automatic GC and how the collection and reference tracking…...
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Doltgres Data Imports
Lately, we've been hard at work building Doltgres , our version-controlled Postgres-compatible database. Doltgres gives you the power of a SQL relational database, combined with the distributed version-control features of Git. Doltgres is current...
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A Pull-first Ollama Docker Image
Over the past few months, we've been experimenting more and more with AI tooling/technologies in an effort to find ways to extract some real value from them. I've recently announced the release of our robot-blogger tool, only to follow it up ...
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