- 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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Getting Started with Dolt Permissions
Dolt is a MySQL compatible version controlled database . Most databases require account management and permissions. You don't want just anyone mucking around with your data. Released in February 2022 , Dolt supports the standard SQL permissions...
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Dolt + Turbine: Versioned Cancer Cell Simulations
Dolt is a version controlled database . How would you use such a thing? Does your business create data? How do you maintain and compare many copies of that data? Do the people that create the data make mistakes? What's the process to recover f...
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A single database for every museum: a retrospective
About DoltHub data bounties Anyone can build a database given enough time. But at DoltHub we build databases in a distributed way, using a unique database, Dolt , that works like Git . Dolt is cool because you can create branches, make...
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Migrating Dolt's Binary Format
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database . It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Over the past year, the team at DoltHub has been working on a new storage engine for Dolt. Earlier this summ...
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$12,000 US Housing Prices Bounty
Coming off the heels of our successful museum collections data bounty is a sequel to one of our flagship projects: tracking every single housing sale record in existence. The link to the latest bounty is here . If you've never heard of...
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How to expose DoltLab with ngrok
ngrok is the programmable network edge that makes it easy to publish unreachable ports on the public internet. DoltLab is the self-hosted, self-managed version of DoltHub , where you can push your Dolt databases, collaborate on changes, mana...
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DoltHub comes to Seattle!
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of DoltHub’s Seattle office! 🏢🎉 We've been busy this week getting moved into a new office space in the University District in Seattle. We're right next to the Unive...
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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 ...
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How We Benchmark Dolt
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Performance has been a major focus of Dolt development over the past year, and we've made substantial progress on th...
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Data, Deaths, and the Damn Prison System
Steal this (note)book If you want to reproduce the charts from this notebook, clone this repository which has everything you need including the CSV files. The data comes from DoltHub's jails data bounty . Check it out. The data analysis ...
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So you want Database Forks?
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 us. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database , a Git database , Git for ...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB5 min read
DoltHub and DoltLab now support SQL uploads
Today we're excited to announce that DoltHub and DoltLab now support .sql file uploads. Prior to this change, users could only upload a .csv , .psv , .xlsx , or .json file using DoltHub and DoltLab's web UI. Although these are ...
Read More - INTEGRATION5 min read
Embedding Dolt in your Golang Application
Dolt is a version controlled database . When run as a server, Dolt is MySQL compatible, so you can connect to it with any MySQL tools or clients. Running Dolt as a server is perfect to back applications, just like you would with MySQL or Pos...
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Benchmarking Dolt's Import Performance
Introduction If you want to work with a database, you probably want to get some data into it first. At DoltHub, we've spent a good chunk of time working on our table import feature which lets you import CSV, JSON, XLSX, and Parquet data...
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Don't change your open-source database's storage engine
Want a technical challenge? Find an open source database and change its storage engine. You'll have to rewrite hundreds if not thousands of functions, validate your changes against test suites, and continuously ru...
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How to set up branch protection rules 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. Dolt has Git-like functionality, includ...
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So you want Spreadsheet Version Control?
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 us. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database , a Git database , Git for ...
Read More - HOSTEDREFERENCE6 min read
Sleepless in Seattle: Wake up with AWS Incident Manager
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git like features. On May 18th, we launched Hosted Dolt , a cloud-hosted Dolt database with built-in logs and monitoring. If you're not familiar with Hosted Dolt, here ...
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Dolt Case Studies
This is our annual update on how our customers are using Dolt, the world's first and only SQL database that you can branch and merge, fork and clone, push and pull just like a git repository. Last year's update included a lot more speculat...
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Relational Database Design: A Step-By-Step Guide
Introduction As an engineer working on Dolt, I spend most of my time working on the internals of a database system. Recently, I worked on using Dolt as a product to create a dataset that stored the entire Bitcoin blockchain's history. As I...
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