- 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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- BOUNTY3 min read
$10,000 Jails and Prisons Data Bounty
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...
Read More - SQL4 min read
The Foreign Key Eviction
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…...
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A Really Bad Day at Atlassian
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 ...
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Where is dynamite hidden in the US housing market?
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...
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Dolt Diff Magic: Part 2 – Viewing data diffs
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...
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Your Database Can Now Be Downloaded As CSVs
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...
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Schema Versioning Puzzle: A Three Part Act
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…
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Dolt, The Easy Database
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....
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Announcing DoltLab v0.3.1
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...
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Generics and Value Types in Golang
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...
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Dolt and SQLAlchemy: A tale of growth
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...
Read More - REFERENCEDOLTGRES5 min read
Have Postgres. Want Dolt.
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...
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What Can You Do with a Version Control Database?
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...
Read More - SQL9 min read
Dolt Diff Magic: Part 1 – The dolt_diff system table
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 ...
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A Database of One's Own
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…
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So you Want an Immutable Database?
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...
Read More - WEB9 min read
Migrating our Monorepo to Yarn 2
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...
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Version Control your Database with Dolt
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...
Read More - DOLTLAB12 min read
Deploying a Production Ready DoltLab Instance, An Example
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...
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Improving Dolt's First Hour Experience
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...
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