Alec Stein

March 23, 2023

Last year I wrote about how much new health insurance data spilled onto the web ( petabytes ). It turned out that for practical purposes most of the rates could probably be discarded , with the usable fraction probably being less than 10%. Bu...

Zach Musgrave

March 20, 2023

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. One of our more popular use cases is assembling large datasets with an army of volunteers, like with our medical pricing bounties . The same people who care about these larg...

Taylor Bantle

March 17, 2023

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git-like features. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. Hosted DoltDB is AWS RDS for Dolt. Both DoltHub and Hosted come with a UI to help visualize data and track changes, while also providing seamless ...

Tim Sehn

March 15, 2023

We have new mode to run Dolt in! The Versioned MySQL Replica. In this mode, you set up Dolt to replicate a primary MySQL. Set up can take as as little as three commands. After set up, Dolt replicates every write to your primary to Dolt and cr...

Jason Fulghum

March 13, 2023

Here at DoltHub, we're big fans of Golang. We built DoltDB , the first fully versioned SQL relational database, entirely on a Golang stack, and we use Go for all the services that power DoltHub , too. This post is a continuation of our series o...

Dustin Brown

March 10, 2023

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...

Andy Arthur

March 8, 2023

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...

Alec Stein

March 6, 2023

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...

James Cor

March 3, 2023

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...

Tim Sehn

March 1, 2023

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...

Brian Hendriks

February 27, 2023

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...

Liu Liu

February 24, 2023

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...

Zach Musgrave

February 22, 2023

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...

Tim Sehn

February 20, 2023

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 ...

Jason Fulghum

February 17, 2023

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...

Alec Stein

February 15, 2023

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...

Tim Sehn

February 13, 2023

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...

Jennifer Purevsuren

February 10, 2023

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…

Zach Musgrave

February 8, 2023

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...

Tim Sehn

February 6, 2023

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...