James Cor

July 6, 2022

Dolt is a version controlled database that combines the features of Git and functionality of MySQL. In this release, we added column statistics, getting us one step closer to MySQL's feature set. Our analyzer can utilize these statistics to improve...

Alec Stein

July 1, 2022

I analyzed 1835 hospital price lists so you didn't have to. But if you're a data scientist, you can do it too! This article was written in part for python-centric data scientists and programmers, and comes with a follow-along notebook where w...

Tim Sehn

June 30, 2022

Document databases like MongoDB rose to prominence because of their ability to store data in a hierarchical format like Javascript Object Notation, aka JSON . Some applications just make more sense when you persist the JSON your application is...

Jennifer Purevsuren

June 29, 2022

Looking for a way to manage versions and work with history of your structured data? Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git with the relational database features of MySQL. Today, we're…

Andy Arthur

June 27, 2022

Dolt is a next-generation SQL database with Git-like version control features. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff , merge , and sync . The core of Dolt's data model is a Merkle Tree index called a Prolly Tree. Proll...

Jason Fulghum

June 24, 2022

Intro Testing a database management system is a challenging endeavor for many reasons. DBMSs are large, complex applications with a lot of focus on code optimization and performance. SQL syntax is sprawling, with lots of dark corners, no lack...

Jennifer Purevsuren

June 22, 2022

Need version control on your existing database? Dolt is a SQL database that can replace your current database but gives you version control features just like Git. The easiest way to migrate a MySQL database is to dump and import to Dolt. We alw...

Dustin Brown

June 21, 2022

It's been six months since we launched DoltLab , the self-hosted version of DoltHub , and a lot has happened in this short amount of time. DoltLab is quickly becoming one of our most compelling product offerings, and we've seen customer i...

Alec Stein

June 17, 2022

Dolt is the first version controlled database in the world. It looks like a database, but can be branched, merged, and cloned like any Git repository. A year and a half ago we launched data bounties and used Dolt's cell-lineage features to ...

Alec Stein

June 14, 2022

Announcing the $10,000 museum collections bounty It’s the year of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Which is also the promise of open data. For the museum-collections bounty we’re hoovering up collections data from museums everywhere...

Tim Sehn

June 13, 2022

Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data" . Dolt's original focus was implementing Git-style version control on tables instead of files to enable users to share data like they share code. DoltHub was a place on the internet to share Dol...

Max Hoffman

June 10, 2022

Dolt is a relational database that uses a custom storage layer and SQL engine to version data with Git-semantics. Every layer in the stack relies on thousands of tests to maintain MySQL compatibility and correctness. The surface area of MySQL and G...

Brian Fitzgerald

June 9, 2022

Fix Dolt Issues In this video, we show you how to start contributing to our open-source database, Dolt . We love when people start helping with any of our open issues. Check out the ones labeled Good First Issue as a place to get star...

Mario Lopez

June 8, 2022

Adding featured images to links shared on social media is a great way to drive website traffic. An image is worth 1,000 clever titles. If you're lucky, you could even go viral with the right picture. But the adding featured images with Gatsby can b...

Brian Hendriks

June 6, 2022

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git like features. Until recently, if you wanted to run Dolt as your OLTP database you had to stand up your own instances deployed with the Dolt binary, and then handle all your own monitoring, alert...

Andy Arthur

June 3, 2022

If you haven't heard by now, Dolt is a version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database you can diff, branch, and merge. Dolt was engineered from the ground-up to support efficient versioning, which is made possible by its novel indexing ...

Brian Fitzgerald

June 3, 2022

Where's the Free Data? The DoltHub team has been hard at work making it easier to find open data on DoltHub . In this video, we show where to find free data on DoltHub. You can also now see how active these databases are with the number ...

Vinai Rachakonda

June 1, 2022

Dolt is Git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull just like a git repository. After studying the Web3 data ecosystem here , we've become fascinated with blockchain data and how to anal...

Alec Stein

May 31, 2022

How hospitals price-gouged insurance companies during the COVID-19 pandemic What happens when your insurance company gets a price that it can't refuse? And how can this even happen? Aren't insurance companies notorious for turning down hos...

Tim Sehn

May 27, 2022

The term "decentralized" is mentioned more and more lately . There's been a 3-4X increase in google searches for the term since 2017 before which searches were relatively constant. What is a Decentralized Database...