- 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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- REFERENCE8 min read
So you want to Version Control Configuration?
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 f...
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Contributing to DoltgreSQL
Last month, I announced that we were finally starting development on DoltgreSQL . In a little over a month, we've made quite a lot of progress and released a new pre-release version. We've also expanded the development team that is working on ...
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Christmas Come Early: An AWS EBS Performance Regression Update
Two weeks ago we published A Spooky Performance Regression in AWS EBS Volumes that highlighted a performance regression in writes against AWS EBS volumes we saw while benchmarking Dolt and MySQL . Initially we suspected that a recent sel...
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Sizing Your Dolt Instance
Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database . To implement Git-style version control functionality at Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) performance , Dolt has different hardware requirements than other OLTP databases. This arti...
Read More - INTEGRATION14 min read
Entity Framework Core with Dolt
DoltDB is the world's first fully-versioned relational database . You can branch, merge, diff, push, and pull your relational data in the same ways that Git allows you to work with your source code files. Dolt is built from the ground up on ope...
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Why Are Golang Heaps So Complicated
Heaps are commonly used to partially sort a set. Every insertion/deletion from the set is followed by a "fixup" to restore either min-heap or max-heap integrity. For example, a max-heap can be represented as a binary tree where every parent is…
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Introducing the Dolt Workbench
We are excited to announce the release of the Dolt Workbench - a modern, browser-based, open source SQL workbench for your MySQL-compatible database. It works with MySQL, MariaDB, and Dolt databases, with additional version control features w...
Read More - TECHNICALDOLTGRES9 min read
Getting to one 7 of SQL correctness for DoltgreSQL
Introduction We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database . Dolt is based on the MySQL dialect and wire protocol, and built to be a drop-in replacement for any MySQL application. But many potential customers expr...
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Dolt + Excel
Dolt , DoltHub , and Hosted Dolt can be used for Spreadsheet Version Control . Many of our customers migrated to Dolt from a really complicated, heavily edited spreadsheet . Earlier this year, I wrote a blog about how to use Dolt with G...
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A Spooky Performance Regression in AWS EBS Volumes
For every Dolt release, we run a suite of Sysbench tests that measure the median latency of Dolt's reads and writes. Since Dolt is a drop-in replacement for MySQL , and soon to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL , we compare Dolt'...
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Smashing Decentralized Databases Together for Fun and Science
A year ago, our founder and CEO Tim wrote a blog post about the recent explosion of interest in decentralized databases. You can read it here . If you like learning about cool new technologies, you should read that first. In Tim’s post, he ...
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Dolt Reflog
DoltDB is the world's first fully-versioned relational database . You can branch, merge, diff, push, and pull your relational data in the same ways that Git allows you to work with your source code files. We're passionate about making Dolt t...
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Costing Index Scans
Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database . We have made many correctness and performance improvements over the last couple of years. But one of the things we have never been good at are queries that need to adapt to underlying table d...
Read More - INTEGRATION15 min read
Hibernate on Dolt, A Sample App
Dolt is the world's first version controlled Database . I've been building software for more than 20 years, and building on top of Dolt makes application development fun again. As I built a little application us...
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Getting stack traces for errors in Go
Introduction This blog is part of our ongoing Go language blog series . We publish a new article in the series every three weeks. We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database . This blog is about different ...
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Building Single Sign-On for your Web Application
We recently released single sign-on (SSO) for two of our web products, Hosted Dolt and DoltLab Enterprise . Administrators can configure an Identity Provider (IdP), where their users can authenticate and authorize access to their organization ...
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Sensible User Privileges and Dolt Procedures
Here at DoltHub we love fixing customer problems. We have a goal to fix every bug our customers report within 24hrs. It's one of the reasons we release new builds all the time, for instance, three this week! It would be irresponsible for us to...
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Virtual column support in Dolt
Introduction We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database. Dolt advertises itself as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so if your current application works on MySQL you can swap in Dolt on the backend with no code c...
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Announcing DoltgreSQL
We are pleased to announce that we have started development on DoltgreSQL ! Dolt has grown significantly over the past few years, however it uses MySQL's syntax. Many users have asked us if we would support PostgreSQL's syntax, and we are fina...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB6 min read
Announcing DoltLab Enterprise Edition
We launched DoltLab , the self-hosted version of DoltHub.com back in January 2022 as a way to support users who wanted to harness the power of Dolt, but not push their data to the public internet. From that point on, we've consistently impr...
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