- 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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- REFERENCE7 min read
Dolt for Beginners: Schemas
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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MySQL Primary Keys: How and why with examples
One of the most important concepts in SQL is the primary key. This tutorial will teach you what a primary key is, how to use it, and what it's good for. What's a primary key? A primary key is a way to identify exactly one record in a SQL t...
Read More - DOLTGRES3 min read
We need your pgdumps
Here at DoltHub we're hard at work on Doltgres , our Postgres-flavored version of Dolt . Dolt is the world's first version controlled database but it's MySQL-flavored. After years of customer feedback requesting a Postgres version, we caved ...
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Learning About RAG
Dolt recently added support for vector indexes , which are a type of index used commonly in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications. These applications are all the rage in the AI world right now, and for good reason. They enable de...
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Dolt for Beginners: Importing a CSV
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. ...
Read More - GOLANG7 min read
Running your Go tests in Github Continuous Integration
We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As a database, we have to write tests. Lots and lots of tests. In fact, tests are a majority of the code we write. ...
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Thousands of Branch Stats
DoltDB is the first version-controlled relational database that scales to thousands of concurrent branches. We spent the last year building a subsystem of table statistics to improve query performance, but so far that system only supports a h...
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Moving documentation in-product with the dolt_help table
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As the only product in its category, there's a lot for our customers to learn to make the most of Dolt's features, so we prioritize writing good docs (and these blogs). Dolt's…
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Building a Custom Title Bar in Electron
When building desktop applications with Electron, the default title bar is functional but often limiting. It takes up valuable space and doesn't always blend well with custom app designs. More importantly, it lacks flexibility—you can’t add…
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Dolt for Beginners: Importing MySQL Dumps
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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Hosted Dolt now supports DoltgreSQL databases
Here at DoltHub we've been hard at work getting Doltgres ready for Beta this quarter. Part of this release includes a hosted version of Doltgres, and we're excited to announce that Doltgres databases are now available on Hosted Dolt ! ...
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Getting Started: Dolt Vectors
In databases, the new hot hotness is vector indexes. Here at DoltHub , we're not immune to the hype. We released support for vector indexes a couple weeks ago. But what are vectors and vector indexes? Why put them in databases? Before I wro...
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Dolt sql-server removes user and password arguments
In the Dolt 1.49.0 release , we removed the ability to specify a username and an optional password when starting a sql-server. These arguments were originally the only way to control the user who could log into a running Dolt sql-server. A few...
Read More - DOLTLAB4 min read
Fixing your Doltlab instance with db-shell
There's lots of ways to use Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database : You can run Dolt locally and manage your DB with our Git-like command line interface. You can run Dolt as a drop-in replacement for your MySQL serve...
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Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Clone
One of the coolest things about Dolt is DoltHub . DoltHub is the place on the internet to find, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. If you find a cool database on DoltHub you want to play with, a good option is to copy it, or clone it in...
Read More - GOLANG11 min read
JSON Showdown: Dolt vs MongoDB
This is the fourth in a series of tests putting Dolt head-to-head against other database engines to see how they handle large JSON documents, comparing their design, performance, and implementation choices. Up until now, we've only been compa...
Read More - DOLTHUBREFERENCE13 min read
Dolt CI Schema Details
Near the end of 2024 we announced the release of continuous integration (CI) testing on DoltHub . This feature allows you to run automated tests against your DoltHub databases, just like you do for your GitHub repositories. If you'd like to tr...
Read More - DATASET6 min read
The State of Hospital Price Transparency Data
DoltHub has been cranking away in the version controlled database space for six and a half years now. Those of you that have been following us since the beginning know that Dolt and DoltHub started as a data sharing tool . In service of t...
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Improving Dolt's getting-started experience with config templating
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. But it didn't start its life as a version-controlled database. It started as a command line tool for sharing datasets . And that history has shaped how you install and get star...
Read More - GOLANGINTEGRATION12 min read
Using sqlx in Go to Query Dolt
DoltDB is an open-source SQL database that also includes all the features of Git – Git gives you distributed version control for files, Dolt gives you distributed version control for relational tables. For example, you can create a branch of a…
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