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. 8 min read

    Caching Gatsby builds with Docker in GitHub Actions

    At DoltHub , we write a lot of blogs. Each week our team publishes three to four blogs on various topics. Some recent blogs include our ongoing effort to publish Hospital Price Data in a single, coherent database , the release of Dolt v0.75.0...

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  2. TECHNICAL
    4 min read

    Journaling Chunk Store

    Today's blog is announcing the 0.75.0 release of Dolt. With it comes the general release of Dolt's Chunk Journal, a new ACID-compliant persistence layer that is both faster and more reliable than our existing store. Over the last few years, Dolt...

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  3. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    Hospital data for all: Part I

    I announced a few months ago that we were planning to make hospital prices accessible in a single, public, freely-accessible database, giving the public access to secret negotiations insurers have with hospitals. We’ll capture these rates in two...

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  4. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    9 min read

    Dolt Supports Spatial Indexes

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database; think Git and MySQL had a baby. Just over a year ago, we began our spatial journey with the addition of Spatial Types . We closed that gap about three months ago when we announced the support of Mult...

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  5. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    So you want Change Data Capture?

    Here at DoltHub we just launched versioned MySQL replication . Dolt is a version controlled database and you can now replicate to Dolt from your production MySQL. This new Dolt deployment mode has it competing in a new product categor...

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  6. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Hosted DoltDB on Google Cloud Platform

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB , a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful databa...

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  7. WEBFEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Automate Your Database Workflow with the New DoltHub API

    We are excited to announce the release of the new DoltHub API, designed to make it easier to manage and collaborate on databases programmatically. The DoltHub API offers a range of features that can help streamline your work and improve produ...

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  8. 7 min read

    Type embedding: Golang's fake inheritance

    Last week a complaint from a gopher about his coworkers bringing Java conventions to a Golang codebase made a minor splash on Reddit. Their complaints: All context.Context are currently being stored as fields in structs. All sync.Wai...

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  9. 15 min read

    Exploring NanoGPT

    ChatGPT is all the rage. I asked ChatGPT if you could raise money if you haven't blogged about it and I did not agree with the response. I may need to raise money again. So, here we go. I was inspired by ...

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  10. FEATURE RELEASE
    8 min read

    Dolt Binlog Replication Preview

    Dolt Binlog Replication Preview Today, we are excited to announce Dolt's support for replicating from a MySQL binlog ! This initial support allows a Dolt sql-server to configure a MySQL or MariaDB instance as its replication source, connect...

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  11. BOUNTY
    4 min read

    Open source lab test pricing data, and why prices vary so much

    Hospital lab tests are commodities: a test is a test is a test. So how can end up with a $8,500 mole biopsy or a $28,000 strep throat cell culture ? Many investigations raise this question but stop short of answering it. We dug into this qu...

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  12. USE CASEREFERENCE
    8 min read

    Dolt + Looker Studio

    A couple weeks ago I wrote about how to use Dolt with Apache Superset . Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Superset charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Superset using the MySQL connector so it's really easy to get start...

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  13. 7 min read

    MySQL Information Schema Compatibility

    Dolt is a version controlled MySQL-compatible database, written from the ground up in Go. We're always working to close the remaining gap on full compatibility with MySQL. In this blog post, we're talking about the work we've done to make Dolt…

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  14. 9 min read

    Version control for Video Game Development using Dolt

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. A lot of people, when they hear about this, say "that's really cool, but what would I do with it?" The answer of cours...

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  15. USE CASE
    15 min read

    Dolt for Backups

    Dolt started as a data sharing tool . Dolt is still a great data sharing tool as you can see from DoltHub Data Bounties where people around the world collaborate on building open databases . But as Dolt got more popular, people wanted t...

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  16. SQL
    6 min read

    Anti Performance

    Dolt is the first fully version controlled relational database . Every Git command is exposed as a SQL function, allowing users to efficiently branch, diff, and merge tables. We recently added anti and semi join support. ANTI_JOIN and SEMI_J...

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  17. REFERENCEUSE CASEGOLANG
    10 min read

    Embedding Go in C

    Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt , which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. People have found many creative uses for Dolt , but there's one area that Dolt has yet to step foot in: the library...

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  18. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt for MySQL Database Versioning

    Recently, I came across this Reddit post going over how they manage database versioning . I was particularly interested in this response To be fair it is really strong process for tracking and recording database c...

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  19. USE CASEREFERENCE
    6 min read

    Dolt + Superset

    A customer wanted to use Apache Superset to visualize Dolt databases. This customer runs DoltLab and intends to version hundreds of databases there. He wants a subset of those databases available to Superset for visualization. Dolt prov...

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  20. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    5 min read

    Dolt Now Supports Online Garbage Collection

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database that you can branch, merge, and diff. Dolt stores data in a prolly tree to efficiently support these operations, which can come with write overhead and use a lot of storage. You can reduce the am...

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