Brian Fitzgerald

May 27, 2022

How to get Data off DoltHub with out Dolt In this video, we show you the different ways you can download data from a Dolt database on DoltHub. On DoltHub, you can download the most current version of the database or any past version by goi...

Dustin Brown

May 25, 2022

Chances are you've heard us say that Dolt is "Git for data". For those who don't know, Dolt is a versioned SQL database with Git-style cloning, branching, merging, and diffing. Since Dolt's inception in 2018, we've pushed this analogy even furth...

Vinai Rachakonda

May 23, 2022

Introduction Dolt is a decentralized database . Dolt uses the Git protocol of decentralization with SQL database tables. Anyone can clone a Dolt database and make reads and writes offline. When that person is ready to share her changes, she...

Brian Fitzgerald

May 20, 2022

Hosted Dolt If you missed the news , Hosted Dolt is here! We'll provision CPU, memory, and disk in a cloud and region of your choice and run a Dolt database for you. We'll handle monitoring and lo...

Andy Arthur

May 20, 2022

In the beginning, there was Noms . The creation of Aaron Boodman and Attic Labs, Noms introduced Prolly Trees, a novel search index structure that supports diff, merge and sync operations. Noms development has since been halted, but its contri...

Tim Sehn

May 18, 2022

Hosted Dolt is here! We'll provision CPU, memory, and disk in a cloud and region of your choice and run a Dolt database for you. We'll handle monitoring and logging. In the future, we'll handle backup, replic...

Jason Fulghum

May 16, 2022

Welcome back to the third post in this series exploring the tricks you can do with Dolt's magical versioning features! 🪄 In the first post of this series , we explored how the dolt_diff system table enables you to see what tables have chan...

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

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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...