Brian Fitzgerald

May 13, 2022

Dolt is the database for dummies Our CEO, Tim Sehn, recently wrote a blog about why Dolt is the database for dummies . In this video, we show off the features that make working with a Dolt database foolproof. You get copy/paste, undo, an...

Zach Musgrave

May 13, 2022

This is an ad. It was written by an employee of the company that owns this domain, and is an attempt to sell you a product. You clicked on it out of curiosity because the title was interesting and promised technical content that is relevant to you…...

Tim Sehn

May 11, 2022

Why name a product Dolt? We get asked all the time . It's named dolt to pay homage to how Linus Torvalds named git : Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm ...

Dustin Brown

May 9, 2022

Hello DoltLabbers! Today's blog will be a quick-start guide, showing you how to monitor your DoltLab instance with Prometheus . We recently released DoltLab v0.4.2 that adds support for DoltLab users requiring implicit TLS connections ...

Alec Stein

May 6, 2022

One of the most expensive hospitals in America may actually be a nonprofit. Insurers pay the hospital, Mary Lanning Healthcare in Nebraska, an average of $200,000 for a particular neurosurgery. However, drive less than hour West to Kearney Regional...

Taylor Bantle

May 4, 2022

Google announced last year that they will be discontinuing their Google Sign-In Javascript Platform Library for the web. It will be replaced with Google Identity Services , their new family of Identity APIs that consolidate multiple identit...

Dustin Brown

May 2, 2022

Today's blog is a quick how-to guide aimed at helping others provision and actually use more than 2TBs of disk on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04. I never planned on writing this blog, but experiencing the surprisingly clunky and cryptic process c...

Zach Musgrave

April 29, 2022

Introduction Dolt is git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull just like a git repository. It's like Git and MySQL had a baby. Being natively version controlled means Dolt ca...

Daylon Wilkins

April 29, 2022

In my last blog post , I went over how we initially implemented foreign keys on our database— Dolt , which fuses a fully MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities—and how our first decision resulted in a complete rewrite o...

Tim Sehn

April 27, 2022

There is one name in the data version control space I'm truly jealous of: DVC , short for "Data Version Control". Data version control is only a small part of what DVC does. DVC is a tool to version code and data in machine learning pipelines. ...

Dhruv Sringari

April 25, 2022

Everyone has that favorite route that they use to drive to work. You’ve driven the route over and over and learn to trust and rely on it over time. You know exactly how long your drive is going to take and when you need to leave the house. So you…

Alec Stein

April 22, 2022

US Hospital Price Transparency Bounty Retrospective A year ago we launched DoltHub data bounties . If you're unfamiliar, we use Dolt to create open databases that don't exist anywhere else on the internet. We use Dolt's data lineage capa...

Max Hoffman

April 20, 2022

Last year we announced prepared statement support , a simple form of query parameterization. True prepared statements save plans to be executed later, often multiple times. But the original work only progressed as far as satisfying the handler AP...

Alec Stein

April 19, 2022

What are data bounties? DoltHub data bounties are our way of getting people to use Dolt: in each bounty, we build meaningful datasets together using Git-style pull requests. If you haven't participated in a bounty already, why not start now...

Daylon Wilkins

April 15, 2022

When building a database, there are many decisions to be made regarding its implementation. Our database is Dolt , which is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We're modeling our SQL implementation on MySQL, so much so that we're a drop-in…...

Zach Musgrave

April 14, 2022

A couple weeks ago, somebody at Atlassian had a really bad day. Seems like they didn't realize it at the time, but their customers noticed pretty quickly. Can we just talk about Atlassian services being down? 🤔 What happened there? It's not a ...

Alec Stein

April 13, 2022

I'm currently staring at what I think might be the biggest open database of housing sales records ever . It's 50GB of uncut housing sales records straight from the government coffers. Tens of millions of them. Good chance to dig around and play w...

Jason Fulghum

April 11, 2022

Welcome back to the second post in this blog series exploring the magic that makes Dolt so unique and powerful. Dolt DB is a MySQL-compliant SQL database that also provides the distributed versioning features of Git. The result is a powerful dat...

Liu Liu

April 8, 2022

For those new to Dolt and DoltHub , Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Recently we received a feature request from one of our customers asking u...

Max Hoffman

April 6, 2022

Today we're going to discuss a series of schema bugs discovered in our version-controlled database, Dolt. It manifested in three related ways, from the display layer, into the storage layer, and finally the execution engine. We will unravel the…