Brian Fitzgerald

April 5, 2022

What Makes Dolt Easy? We think one of the big advantages of Dolt is that it can be downloaded and running on your machine in under a minute. Maybe a little bit longer when you set up your DoltHub login so you can push or pull from DoltHub....

Dustin Brown

April 5, 2022

Download the latest DoltLab here and head over to https://docs.dolthub.com/guides/doltlab for the latest documentation Today we are excited to announce the release of DoltLab v0.3.1 , the product that lets you self-host your own Dolt...

Andy Arthur

April 1, 2022

Go 1.18 has been released and along with it comes long-awaited support for Generics ! Generics are the most significant change to the language in years. They add a new dimension to what is otherwise a minimalist type system. From the very beginni...

Vinai Rachakonda

March 30, 2022

Introduction We have been working hard towards making Dolt a production-grade, MySQL compatible database. Last year, we discussed MySQL compatibility in the form of SQLLogictests where we hit 99% correctness . Now, we are very focused on co...

Tim Sehn

March 28, 2022

Note: We released a Postgres version of Dolt called DoltgreSQL . Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. DoltLab is a self-hosted version of DoltHub. Dolt brin...

Brian Fitzgerald

March 25, 2022

Version Control your Existing Database One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing in...

Jason Fulghum

March 25, 2022

Here at DoltHub, we’re building Dolt DB – a new type of distributed, versioned database that gives you all the power and expressivity of a SQL relational database, combined with the ability to time travel through your data to understand exactly ...

Zach Musgrave

March 23, 2022

The software development world vs. the database admin world Why is the way we make changes to software so different from the way we make changes to databases? It's impossible not to notice. In one world we have source control and a whole…

Tim Sehn

March 21, 2022

Immutable databases offer history and audit to your database. Immutable databases are becoming a popular alternative to blockchain. No survey of the category exists. This blog attempts to explain what an immutable database is, why you might want to...

Taylor Bantle

March 18, 2022

DoltHub is a web-based UI built in React to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We recently migrated our monorepo to Yarn 2 (or Yarn Modern). It took us some extra steps to make Yarn 2 work with our monorepo and other infras...

Brian Fitzgerald

March 17, 2022

One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is going to be very additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing infrastructure. Once you have sto...

Dustin Brown

March 16, 2022

This year we launched DoltLab the self-hosted version of DoltHub . In February, we released the latest version of DoltLab , version v0.2.0 , which included a number of features and bug fixes. We are actively working on DoltLab's next relea...

Vinai Rachakonda

March 13, 2022

Introduction Dolt is on its way to becoming a production grade version-controlled MySQL database. Most developers associate "production grade" software with performance, but to us, it includes user experience (UX). Our current UX challenge is...

Alec Stein

March 11, 2022

About this bounty For our latest bounty we've been pretty ambitious. We asked our community to go out and scrape as many housing sales records as they can find, and after the bounty finished, we topped out at 50 GB of sales data. That is a lo...

Dhruv Sringari

March 9, 2022

With Dolt , you can push and pull a local MySQL compatible database to and from a remote. Remotes can be managed with the dolt remote CLI command and it supports many types of remotes . You can use a separate directory as a Dolt remote...

Tim Sehn

March 7, 2022

If any of you are like me, you've been distracted for the past couple weeks with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This event has fundamentally changed the perspectives of many in the world. I foresee a bigger focus and investment on defense in the…...

Alec Stein

March 4, 2022

US Housing Prices 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 cell ancestry capability to fi...

Vinai Rachakonda

March 3, 2022

About At DoltHub we are laser focused on improving Dolt's UX across the database stack. A key part of this is integrating with SQL Editors that offer an elegant SQL reading and writing experience. Below is a video that teaches you how to s...

Max Hoffman

March 2, 2022

We aim to make Dolt 100% MySQL compliant, but we are also committed to making Dolt fast. My colleagues are hard at work adding new optimizations to our storage layer — inlining functions, minimizing memory allocations, dovetailing cache locality…

Dhruv Sringari

February 28, 2022

Dolt is an open-source version-controlled database. It lets you push and pull databases just like you can push and pull source code with git. You can make changes on a local clone, commit, and then dolt push them to a remote with a single CLI ...