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'...

Jason Fulghum

December 11, 2024

Lately, we've seen customers install the latest innovation release of MySQL (i.e. MySQL-9.0) and then have problems connecting to a Dolt SQL server due to MySQL-9.0 removing mysql_native_password auth support. In this post, we'll explain what...

Tim Sehn

December 10, 2024

Hot on the heels of my overview of Dolt configuration , I'm going to do a deep dive on config.yaml , the configuration file for a Dolt SQL Server. As I was writing the configuration overview, I realized our documentation on our main configurati...

Tim Sehn

December 9, 2024

Dolt is a decentralized database . In the past ten years or so decentralization has gone through a few hype cycles. I think we're in a pro-decentralization hype period right now. Decentralization hype tracks the price of Bitcoin and last I checke...

Taylor Bantle

December 6, 2024

We've been hard at work getting Doltgres , a Postgres-flavored version of Dolt , ready for its beta release in Q1 . This includes making sure all the version control features you know and love from Dolt also work properly in a Postgres enviro...

Nick Tobey

December 5, 2024

Last time, I discussed a specific design problem that I encountered while writing generic code in Go, and how I eventually solved it. I was proud that I had found a solution, although less proud that it wasn't the cleanest. ...

Tim Sehn

December 4, 2024

Dolt configuration is a bit of a mess. To start, it's a union of Git and MySQL styles of configuration. Then, Dolt specific configuration is sprinkled on top. It's been on our list for a long time to consolidate and rationalize Dolt configuration...

Tim Sehn

December 3, 2024

Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database. Dolt is fully MySQL-compatible. You connect to it with any MySQL client. Some MySQL clients require connection authentication using Transport Layer Security (TLS) . TLS is ofte...

Taylor Bantle

December 2, 2024

The Dolt Workbench is a modern, open-source SQL workbench that works with any MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database, including version controlled databases like Dolt and DoltgreSQL . We think that the workbench experience is vastly impro...

Jason Fulghum

November 29, 2024

A couple of decades ago, as a brand-new CS grad just entering the world of big tech, I was given the Programming Perl book – also affectionately known as the "Camel Book". 🐪 I was told that I was now officially a Perl programmer and should lear...

Brian Hendriks

November 27, 2024

So you've been using Dolt for a while, and you are ready to take the next step and use it in production. Whether you are running your production environment on prem, or in the cloud, there are several steps you should take to ensure that your Dol...

Zach Musgrave

November 26, 2024

Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository. Like files in Git, tables and other data in Dolt are content-addressed by a...

Max Hoffman

November 24, 2024

I ran into a performance trade-off last week attempting to improve long-running queries by changing the ways rows are structured. A more general row interface increases memory overhead but lets us skip encoding overhead. Unfortunately, joins create...

Nick Tobey

November 22, 2024

This comment on ycombinator lives rent-free in my head. Nothing before or since has captured my feelings on Go quite as succinctly. Take for instance, generics. Or its more precise name: parametric polymorp...