- 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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- FEATURE RELEASESQL6 min read
Improving Stored Procedure Support
Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. After you install Dolt , all it takes are a few commands to have a running server: mkdir demo cd demo dolt init dolt...
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Cooperating with Golang's GC & Fast Blob Writes
Dolt is the first SQL database with Git versioning . We are drop-in MySQL compatible, support every Git command, and are actively defining a new frontier at the intersection of the two APIs. Last month we wrote an import tutorial with initi...
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Adding Google Analytics 4 to an existing Gatsby and Next.js application
Google announced earlier this year that Universal Analytics will stop processing data on July 1, 2023 (July 1, 2024 for Analytics 360 Properties) in favor of their newer Google Analytics 4 . You can think of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) as a ne...
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Some Useful Patterns for Go's os/exec
We're building Dolt , the world's first SQL database with Git-like version control . Dolt has a large test suite, partly in golang unit tests and partly in bats , a framework for writing tests that run in Bash and can easily test many interac...
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So you want Data Quality Control?
Data Quality Control is a big, broad topic. So, I'm warning you in advance, this article is going to be long, like 4,000 words long. Here at DoltHub we built the world's first version controlled SQL database , Dolt . In traditional softwa...
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Three Ways to Import Data into Dolt
Dolt is the first database that versions data like Git versions code. We focused on a few key areas for improving Dolt this year: 1) sharpening MySQL feature parity, 2) smoothing the first hour experience, and 3) chasing MySQL's performance. Tod...
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Hosted Dolt now has Organization Teams
In May we launched Hosted DoltDB , a cloud-hosted Dolt database with built in logs and monitoring. For those new to Hosted DoltDB , here are some blogs to get you up to speed. Introduction to Hosted Dolt Hosted Dolt Infrastructure ...
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Introducing Branch Permissions
Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. After you install Dolt , all it takes are a few commands to have a running server: mkdir demo cd demo dolt init dolt sq...
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What Do Two Dot and Three Dot Mean for Logs and Diffs?
TL;DR Git versions files and Dolt versions data . The diff and log commands in Git and Dolt are useful tools to view what has changed between different revisions. You can control what changes you want to include when listing logs...
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Dolt Supports Every Type
If you haven't heard, Dolt is a version controlled database, kinda like if Git and MySQL had a baby. Not too long ago, we announced partial support for Spatial Data Types . Since then, we've received requests for the rest of the Spatial Types,...
Read More - GOLANG16 min read
Pruning test dependencies from Go binaries
We're building Dolt , the world's first SQL database with Git-like version control . Recently, a customer contacted us to let us know that test symbols were making it into their binary when they took a dependency on our go-mysql-server l...
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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...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB4 min read
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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