Tim Sehn

November 20, 2024

Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database . We've been iterating on the concept for over six years now . We're the world's experts in database version control. Along the way we've learned a few things. This article...

Zach Musgrave

November 19, 2024

We are hard at work building Doltgres , the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt . Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database and is MySQL compatible, and most of us at DoltHub are more familiar with MySQL than with Postg...

Nick Tobey

November 18, 2024

Dolt was created to be the world's first truly version controlled database . We think it does a great job at that. And in the process of making Dolt, we realized that the same data structures that make Dolt fast and efficient at version control a...

Tim Sehn

November 15, 2024

HIPAA certification is a security and privacy certification for organizations. HIPAA is generally required by customers dealing with health care data in the United States. This certification is very similar to Service Organization Controls 2 (SOC...

Dustin Brown

November 14, 2024

Continuous integration (CI) testing is a software development practice where automated tests are run against incoming code changes pushed by software developers collaborating on a code repository. If a developer pushes changes that fail to pass the...

Max Hoffman

November 13, 2024

Relational databases are an organizational step change improvement over flat files like Excel or JSON. Strict typing improves data quality and maintainability over time. Schema mutations, data versioning, lineage are tracked. And you get all of the...

Zach Musgrave

November 12, 2024

We are hard at work building Doltgres , the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. We are planning a public Beta launch of Doltrgres in the first quarter of 2025 , and one of the most...

Tim Sehn

November 11, 2024

When you are using Dolt, you'll come across a lot of 32 character random strings like k0j5gejn5ebnoqa3jr4pdkb6etbbrfri . For instance, each entry in your Dolt log has one. $ dolt log -n 3 commit o9vdhp8fj78nhoa2ul9fm5s7nkks5ovv ( HEA...

Max Hoffman

November 8, 2024

String concatenation isn't the most elegant looking code: getFieldName := gf . tableName + "+" + gf . ColName But it's quite a bit faster than fmt.Sprintf , which arguably looks more organized: getFieldName := fmt ....

Daylon Wilkins

November 7, 2024

We're continuing to make progress on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. Dolt , is a MySQL compatible database is built from the ground up with Git-influenced version control features. Th...

Neil Macneale

November 6, 2024

A couple weeks ago, I discussed how Amazon was migrated to Git , and I mentioned the Brazil build system briefly. Brazil is a specialized version control system, which, in the past, was built on top of a SQL database. Today I'll talk a little ...

Jason Fulghum

November 5, 2024

One of MySQL's greatest features is its robust replication support. MySQL replication provides scalability, reliability, and high availability benefits for MySQL-based systems and is extremely widely used in production deployments of MySQL. Here...

Tim Sehn

November 4, 2024

Dolt is inspired by Git and MySQL, two deeply command-line oriented software programs. Thus, Dolt started as a command line utility, matching almost all of Git's capabilities . We then added a MySQL-compatible server component so you could connec...

Jennifer Purevsuren

November 1, 2024

Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database. It means you can commit, diff and merge along with other Git-like version control actions. You can use Dolt with most workbenches, ORMs and SQL connectors that are available on the Internet....

Dustin Brown

October 31, 2024

Recently, users running SQL queries against their databases hosted on DoltHub has led us to uncovering some really interesting bugs in Dolt itself. In today's post, I'll take you on a journey as I recount our investigation of these bugs, and ...

Zach Musgrave

October 30, 2024

Introduction At DoltHub, we ship features, a lot. We fix bugs in 24 hours , but we also have a lot of long-term projects we're working on at any given time. We keep track of these goals on our roadmap , which just got its periodic update ...

Liu Liu

October 29, 2024

We recently released the Dolt Workbench desktop application for both Mac and Windows . In our previous blog , we covered how to submit an Electron application to the Mac App store. Now, we will guide you through the process of publishing ...

Tim Sehn

October 28, 2024

While writing about how to tune Dolt for large databases , it dawned on me that we don't have documentation on the internal file structure of a Dolt database. What does Dolt look like on the inside? Let's dissect a database and find out. ...

Aaron Son

October 25, 2024

At DoltHub we're building Dolt , a SQL database that supports Git-like version control, including branch, merge, diff, clone, push, and pull. Dolt is written in Go. This post is part of a series of blog posts about programming in Go . I f...

Max Hoffman

October 24, 2024

DoltDB is the first relational database that supports Git-like version control primitives like branch , diff , and merge . All our versioning features exist alongside full MySQL compatibility and near MySQL latency parity . The latest re...