1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    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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  1. 3 min read

    The Dolt 24 Hour Pledge. Wait. There's more...

    If you find a correctness bug in Dolt, we'll fix it in 24 hours or less. We even wrote a blog about how we do it . The blog did well on HackerNews , generated some internal discussion, and now I have an addendum. The nature of Dolt as a vers...

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  2. DOLTLAB
    5 min read

    Customizing the look of your DoltLab

    DoltLab is Dolt 's self-hosted remote with a built-in web interface. We've been publishing more DoltLab content recently to make it easier for you to get started with your own DoltLab. If you're new to DoltLab, I'd recommend starting w...

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  3. REFERENCE
    3 min read

    DoltHub is SOC2 Compliant

    Service Organization Controls 2 or SOC2 is a security certification. DoltHub recently received our SOC2. We even have a Trust page to show for it. You'll have to request access but we're happy to provide it. This blog will walk you through ...

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  4. TECHNICALDOLTGRES
    10 min read

    psql's Hidden Queries

    Introduction We're hard at work building Doltgres , a Postgres-compatible database with git-inspired version control features. Before we built Doltgres we built Dolt , which is MySQL-compatible instead. One of the first things we needed t...

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  5. USE CASE
    4 min read

    Dolt + Scorewarrior: Version Controlled Game Configuration

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database . How would you use such a thing? A popular Dolt use case is version controlling configuration . Modern games have a ton of configuration. Managing megabytes or gigabytes of configuration across ma...

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  6. INTEGRATION
    11 min read

    Dolt + Datadog: Building Dolt Dashboards with Datadog

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible SQL database that supports Git-like functionality, including branching, diffing, and merging. Dolt enables you to version control your data and your data's schema, just like Git allows you to version control your code. Do...

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  7. DOLTLAB
    8 min read

    DoltLab v2.1.4 Installer Update

    We've been on a tear as of late trying to make the new user experience of DoltLab simpler and easier. Tim, our CEO, went through the process of setting up his own DoltLab instance and published two blogs about it; one that explains how to get ...

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  8. 4 min read

    How to fix bugs in 24 hours or less

    Here at DoltHub, we made a pledge to fix Dolt correctness bugs in 24 hours or less . We're proud of this pledge and we work hard to uphold it. But how is this possible? Response times to issues in the software industry vary wildly. It's not un...

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  9. DOLTGRESSQLTECHNICAL
    5 min read

    Is Postgres Too Customizable?

    We're steadily making progress on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. With the goal of being a drop-in replacement, we're doing a lot of research to make sure that we're implementing the sa...

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  10. TECHNICAL
    7 min read

    Binary Search Vs. Prolly Search

    Dolt, the world's first SQL Database which has full version control properties, has a lot of interesting computer science lurking in its depths. Recently I've been writing about the Dolt storage system , and there is a very subtle bit buried in t...

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  11. GOLANG
    10 min read

    ok Considered Harmful

    Update 2024-05-20: The originally published article contained a factual error in the example about reading from a channel, which has been corrected. The author regrets the error. Introduction There's an old joke among programmers that the...

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  12. DOLTLABREFERENCE
    4 min read

    Getting Started: DoltLab Enterprise

    DoltLab is Dolt 's self-hosted remote with a built-in web interface. You get all the features of DoltHub , a built in SQL Workbench, Pull Requests, Issues, etc, on infrastructure deployed in your own network. DoltLab has an Enterprise o...

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  13. TECHNICAL
    8 min read

    dolt fetch Gets Much Faster

    The latest version of Dolt includes lots of work to better parallelize, pipeline and schedule network requests when we fetch new commits from certain types of Dolt remotes. In some benchmarks, under some network conditions, pulls are almost 25x…

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  14. DOLTGRES
    5 min read

    Understanding Postgres Database Schemas and the search_path

    Introduction We're hard at work building Doltgres , a Postgres-compatible database with git-inspired version control features. Before we built Doltgres we built Dolt , which is MySQL-compatible instead. One of the biggest differences i...

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  15. SQL
    6 min read

    Disk Storage Read Planning

    Dolt is the first and only database that versions structured data the way Git versions code. Our users use Dolt either as a relational database running on cloud hardware, like Hosted Dolt , or as a web collaboration tool like DoltHub or Dolt...

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  16. 5 min read

    Deconfusing How To Use Gmail's SMTP server in 2024

    I'm old enough to remember when writing an app to send emails from a Gmail account was cool. You click a couple things in your Google account console, you provide your username and password to your app, and zing , you're in business. Now, i...

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  17. DOLTLABREFERENCE
    11 min read

    Getting Started: DoltLab

    DoltLab is Dolt 's self-hosted remote with a built-in web interface. You get all the features of DoltHub , a built in SQL Workbench, Pull Requests, Issues, etc, on infrastructure deployed in your own network. This blog will walk through...

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  18. GOLANGTECHNICAL
    10 min read

    Dolt Gets a cgo Dependency

    At DoltHub, we're building Dolt, a MySQL-compatible SQL database with Git-like functionality, including branch, diff, merge, push, pull and clone. Dolt is written in Go. For a variety of reasons, we have traditionally avoided cgo dependencies in Do...

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  19. DOLTGRES
    1 min read

    Introducing doltgres.com

    We're serious about Doltgres , the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt. We're bringing Git-style version control to the Postgres ecosystem just like we brought it to the MySQL ecosystem with Dolt. We're just a couple years behind on Doltgres. ...

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  20. TECHNICAL
    5 min read

    Dolt Storage: Introducing Archives

    This is the third in a series about how Dolt stores bytes on disk. The first two parts provide a lot of context about what today's blog is about: A new storage format! Two weeks ago we reviewed the existing storage system and its index lookup...

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