- 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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- SQL9 min read
Memoizing Joins
Dolt is a relational database with Git versioning primitives. Dolt versions data where Git versions code. Most of our users are interested in transactional workloads, but we also have customers with heavier analytical queries. Joins have been th...
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So you want Soft Deletes?
This recent article and corresponding Hacker News thread brought the topic of soft deletes to my attention. People have been wondering if soft deletes are a good idea for a long time . Here at DoltHub , we built a version controlle...
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I Am Healthcare Transparency and So Can You
If you're like me you've spent a lot of the last two months thinking about how to parse huge JSON files. That's because some of the most valuable data in the world of healthcare is buried in them. These files are big (sometimes 100GB+) and ann...
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Migrate your Dolt database to the new format on DoltHub
DoltHub is the central repository for Dolt's version-controlled databases . We like to call it the Github of databases. It lets you query, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Last month, we brought Dolt's new storage format to DoltH...
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Dockerception: Leonardo DiCaprio and DoltLab v0.7.0
In early October we released DoltHub Jobs , our latest backend change to DoltHub that lets DoltHub handle large, long-running write operations like file import and pull-request merge. We also recently released DoltLab v0.7.0 which include...
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Announcing the $10,000 chargemaster URLs bounty
DoltHub is building a database of hospitals and their chargemasters for Payless.Health . A complete list of URLs will help them build out their comprehensive search engine of hospital prices, spanning all 7,000+ hospitals in the US. Backgro...
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How to Publish Releases to Docker Hub using GitHub Actions
Dolt is a version controlled relational database. It is a combination of Git and MySQL. We've received requests for an official Dolt Docker image from many customers who want to run Dolt in a container. We give our customers what they ask for, no...
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Hosted Trial Instances for $50
Dolt is a database like no other. Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database . In Dolt both your data and schema are managed with a Git-like commit graph which allows you to do things that you can't do with any other database ...
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Improved SQL Alias Support
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git's distributed versioning features. It's the first relational database that versions your data changes AND your schema changes. Dolt allows you to branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone, diff a...
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Announcing Standby Replication
Almost a year ago, we announced the first version of Dolt sql-server replication . In that blog post, we described a replication feature of Dolt sql-server where new Dolt commits on a primary server are replicated to a Dolt remote and reads issue...
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So you want a Multiplayer Database?
Some of you may have heard that Adobe bought Figma or $20B. . Figma brought a "multiplayer" experience to design tools like Sketch much the same way Google Docs brought a multiplayer experience to Microsoft Word. This online, collaborative exp...
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Go Performance Case Studies
Dolt DB is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. We built Dolt's storage engine from the ground up to make these operations fast. Writing a row storage engine an...
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Beyond the trillion prices: pricing C-sections in America
This article is equal parts data repository , code repository , and notebook . The linked GitHub repo gives you the tools you need to reproduce this analysis or create your own. Last month I wrote about how insurance companies had p...
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Attach of the (Database) Clones! 🤖
Dolt DB is the world's first fully versioned SQL database. It combines the distributed versioning features of Git with the power and expressiveness of a relational database. In the same way the Git CLI allows you to branch, merge, diff, push, ...
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Announcing DoltHub Jobs and DoltLab v0.6.0
Today we're excited to make two announcements, one for each of our web based platforms, DoltHub and DoltLab . For DoltHub, "Jobs", our term for long running asynchronous work, are now supported. Jobs can be kicked off by DoltHub users, or m...
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ER Diagrams on DoltHub
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. Recently, we released the ability to gener...
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Announcing Dolt's New Storage Engine
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database . It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. For the last year, we've been rewriting our storage engine to improve Dolt's performance and stability as a produ...
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When to make a Dolt Commit
When should you commit? It's a question as old as time, dating back to the original init commit. But when should you make a Dolt commit? That's a much lighter weight decision. This blog will give you some ad...
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Hosted DoltDB's SQL Workbench is now writeable
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git like features. In May we launched Hosted DoltDB , a cloud-hosted Dolt database with built-in logs and monitoring. If you're not familiar with Hosted Dolt, here are some blogs to get started: I...
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Dolt Rollback Options
Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. Dolt applies all the Git functionality you know to a SQL database. As such, Dolt provides many different ways to rollback. This blog covers those ways. For the purpose o...
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