- 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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- REFERENCEUSE CASEGOLANG7 min read
C to WASM to Go
Sometimes, the most complicated solution may end up being the simplest. This sounds like a contradiction, but it depends on where a project's priorities lay. I'm an engineer here at DoltHub , and about 9 months ago I implemented collation su...
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Using DoltHub as a Remote for Hosted Dolt
We have two web products for Dolt : DoltHub and Hosted Dolt . DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt and Hosted is AWS RDS for Dolt. Each product has different use cases depending on your goals, but there are also reasons to use DoltHub and Hos...
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Your config file should be a database
In my pre-startup life I worked at Google, a company that has some pretty incredible, internal-only technology that you won't find anywhere else. An entire engineering culture has developed around the availability of these technologies, and it's…
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DoltHub on Hosted Dolt
For the past few months at DoltHub , we've been really excited about the release of Dolt 1.0 . If you missed it, it dropped last Friday May 5th. Dolt 1.0 is the first stable release of Dolt and guarantees forward storage compatibility, produ...
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Making Nautobot work with Dolt, again
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that allows branching, diffing, and merging database changes. In this blog post, we will discuss how Dolt is being used with a network automation solution called Nautobot and the recent fixes we've had to ma...
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Getting Started: Hosted Dolt
There are a bunch of ways to get started with Dolt , the word's first and only version controlled database . You can run Dolt locally as a version controlled database or as Git for Data . You can start using Dolt by sharing data on Do...
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Using dolt_ignore to Prevent Accidents
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. Think of it as Git for Data : Git versions files, and Dolt versions tables. In its typical use case, users commit changes to the database, and in git-like fashion, those com...
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Three-Way Merges in Dolt: Modeling Schema Conflicts
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. Its powerful branch and merge model is exposed through a familiar Git-style interface. In fact, Dolt's connection to Git goes beyond interface compatibility. At the storage laye...
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Connecting to a Database With Branches
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. This means that you can branch, merge, and diff your data just like you would with code. These are powerful features, but they can be confusing to users who aren't used to workin...
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Working with AWS Remotes
Almost two years ago, my colleague Brian blogged about how to use Dolt with different types of supported remotes . The most accessible type of Dolt remote is a database on DoltHub , but, as outlined in that previous blog, there are a number of ...
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Rename our Database
Naming products is hard. We wrote the world's first version controlled SQL database, which we called Dolt . We named it that way to pay homage to how Linus Torvalds says he named git: Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which...
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Why a database of hospital prices doesn't exist yet
In 2021, a US executive order forced hospitals to publish all their insurance-negotiated rates in machine readable files. We think this data should be public, so we're crowdsourcing a single, fully open, MySQL-compatible database of it. You can tra...
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Dolt Architecture Introduction
Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database. How would you build a version controlled SQL database? This article will start with some of the high level requirements, explain some possible architecture options, and then explain the…...
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Cloning a Hosted Database
Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. Since we launched Hosted last year, we've been adding new features to offer a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful database and version control features....
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Keep Calm And Panic
Dolt is a SQL database with MySQL’s syntax and Git’s versioning semantics. Dolt is run as a service, and when things go wrong we prefer SQL errors to crashed servers. This was the basic premise behind Brian’s painstaking rewrite of Noms panics...
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Accessing Dolt Data with the Postgres mysql_fdw
Dolt is a full featured SQL database which supports Git-like version control features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. It's wire protocol and supported SQL dialect are based on MySQL. Here at DoltHub, it's not uncommon for o...
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Using SQLAlchemy for Dolt Time Travel
A customer was struggling with how to use standard ORM tools, like SQLAlchemy, to access Dolt time travel features across schema changes. One specific problem area is that combining app ORM/schema tools with Dolt time travel features has been...
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Introducing dolt_column_diff
Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. One of the features that leverages the powerful versioned history Dolt tracks is our Database Hist...
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