Tim Sehn

September 25, 2023

The snake doesn't like to commit. In Python autocommit is off by default in the Database API . This is different than other standard database connectors like ODBC and JDBC. Most common databases have autocommit on by default including SQL...

Zach Musgrave

September 22, 2023

We are writing Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's free and open source software, and we've been using Discord to connect with our users for a little over 3 years. This blog is about why we picked Discord an...

James Cor

September 20, 2023

A couple years ago, we announced a version of query-diff . The feature always made us nervous. Dolt's storage engine promises fast diff based on content-addressed prolly trees . However, query-diff doesn't take advantage of Prolly trees; ra...

Tim Sehn

September 18, 2023

We're saying Good Bye to one of DoltHub 's most unique experiments, Data Bounties . DoltHub started with a data marketplace mission. Data Bounties were our best idea to bootstrap a virtuous cycle between data producers and data consumers. Da...

Tim Sehn

September 15, 2023

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 . I first tested Dolt against Google Sheets in fall of 2020 wor...

Taylor Bantle

September 13, 2023

Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. We recently received a feature request for SAML integration for a single sign-on (SSO) solution to hosted.doltdb.com , which is available now! What is SAML? SAML (...

Jason Fulghum

September 11, 2023

Dolt DB is the world's first fully-versioned SQL relational database. It allows you to track the history of your data in every row and every column of all your tables. In the same way that Git enables you to branch, merge, fork, and diff your sou...

Nick Tobey

September 8, 2023

Previously, I wrote an article about pitfalls befouling Go newcomers. These were each lessons that I personally learned while working on go-mysql-server , a drop-in replacement for MySQL written entirely in Go. We made it to be the best pure-G...

Max Hoffman

September 6, 2023

Dolt is a SQL database with a custom storage layer designed for Git semantics. Dolt supports fast branching, diffing, and merging, plus all of the features MySQL provides. One of the ways we track our compatibility with MySQL are sqllogictests...

Stephanie You

September 1, 2023

Dolt's CLI has been getting a bit of a revamp recently. With more CLI commands migrated to use SQL to retrieve results, it's easier than ever to access your remote data this way. Our most recently migrated command is dolt log ! $ dolt -...

Dustin Brown

August 30, 2023

For growing software startups offering online products and services, there comes a time when having on-call engineers becomes a necessity. As customers and service level agreements begin to increase, someone needs to always be available to address…...

Tim Sehn

August 28, 2023

Here at DoltHub we believe in military and intelligence applications of Dolt . Harpoon Ventures , a venture capital firm that helps companies like ours get connected with the US military, invested in our last round of financing. In-Q-Te...

Tim Sehn

August 25, 2023

Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database . An important feature of modern databases is replication: enabling writes to multiple database instances. Replication is used for scalability, performance, and disaster recover...

Brian Hendriks

August 23, 2023

Testing database logic, and applications that use databases can be difficult. In order to do it properly every test that is run needs to be run against a clean database. This is because tests can leave the database in an unknown state, and cause…

Jason Fulghum

August 21, 2023

Dolt is the world's first fully-versioned SQL relational database. It allows you to track the full history of the data in every row and every column of all your tables. Although Dolt doesn't share any code with MySQL, it is MySQL-compatible – meani...

Taylor Bantle

August 18, 2023

Dolt is Git for data . One of the most useful Git features is the ability to create pull requests, see their diff, and merge them from the browser. Both DoltHub ( GitHub for Dolt ) and the SQL workbench on Hosted Dolt ( AWS RDS fo...

Nick Tobey

August 16, 2023

Go is relatively young, as far as programming languages go; it will be 14 years old this November. For comparison, C++, which Go directly competes with in the space of compiled general-purpose programming languages, is 38. Go brings a lot of e...

Daylon Wilkins

August 14, 2023

A few weeks ago, we announced our initial implementation of Full-Text indexes . Dolt uses a bespoke SQL engine , which allows us to have a Git-influenced versioned database with the performance that would be expected of a production-rea...

Liu Liu

August 11, 2023

For those of you that are new, Dolt is a database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share and collaborate on Dolt databases. We are excited to introduce a great enhancement to DoltHub , offering you e...

Zach Musgrave

August 9, 2023

All software is terrible, as we all know. But some software is more terrible than others. Why is that? What is the property that makes some software frustrating or confusing to use? And more importantly, what i...