- 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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- BOUNTY2 min read
US Businesses Bounty Retrospective
This guest blog post is by Spacelove, a top performer of several of our former bounties and winner of many thousands of dollars in prize money. He agreed to be the coordinator and judge for the US Businesses data bounty. Our $10,000 bounty of U...
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$10,000 Basketball Statistics Bounty
It's that time again. We just finished the US businesses bounty so it's time for a new bounty. We are launching a $10,000 bounty to build SHAQ . S hared H oops Database for A ccessible Q uerying. We had some Dolt-curious...
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Error handling with errgroups
Here at DoltHub, we write a lot of software in Go . We've previously blogged a little bit about error handling and errgroup in particular , but today I wanted to share two patterns regarding errgroups that came up recently in some code changes....
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Dolt Performance in the Wild
Dolt is a version controlled database. In order to offer full, robust, Git-style version control for both schema and data, Dolt makes some performance trade offs. Each write needs to be stored to disk and hashed for easy comparison against what i...
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Dolt v. MySQL on the TPC-C benchmark
Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a git repository. Its storage engine is built from the ground up to make these operations possible, but over the wire it speaks MySQL, and should be a drop-in...
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Finding Dolt
Finding Dolt Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is the only database that offers complete Git versioning for data. Dolt databases are MySQL compliant but can be created and edited locally, replicated to remote servers, and incrementa...
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Availability With Dolt Read Replicas
TL;DR: Today we're excited to introduce read replication for Dolt! Read replication is a common way to scale read-heavy applications by copying data from a source server to replicas. Setting DOLT_REPLICATE_TO_REMOTE and DOLT_READ_REPLICA...
Read More - WEB3 min read
Public DoltHub Issues
DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. The source code for DoltHub is private, and we recently decided to make a public repository for DoltHub issues while we work on making DoltHub open so...
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Speeding Up Commit Graph Walks with Materialized Ancestor Closures
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database — a database where users and their applications can branch, merge, push, pull and clone the value of their database. It works on a similar model to git , where commits referring to a snapshot of a valu...
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How to Publish Winget and Chocolatey Packages with Github Actions
Greetings! Today we are excited to share that we now publish Dolt releases on both winget and Chocolatey , making Dolt even easier to install for our Windows users. Prior to this, Windows users had to visit Dolt's releases page to downlo...
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Dolt. The database for...
The genesis for DoltHub the company was a persistent question starting in 2013. Why is there no place on the internet to get access to interesting, maintained data? DoltHub's thesis was adding branch/merge to data in some way similar to what we had...
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Comparing Dolt Backups with Remotes
Whether due to clumsiness, physical damage, or malicious actors, the worst thing that can happen to your data is irretrievable loss. But this is a feature release, not a postmortem, and we are excited to announce Dolt backups! The CLI now includ...
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Dolt roadmap retrospective
A few months ago I got interviewed by a substack on open source development about Dolt. One of the questions I was glad to answer was what motivates me to contribute to Dolt. Well there's the money, obviously. But more than that, it's being part...
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Edit like a Spreadsheet V1
DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. For about a year we've been working on adding more ways to edit data on DoltHub. Edit like a spreadsheet has been one of the most asked about features on...
Read More - USE CASE4 min read
Dolt + Aktify: Versioned Data Ingestion
Dolt is a version controlled database . How would one use such a thing? Do you gather data from a bunch of sources? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects at ingestion or do defects manifest downstream as production errors?...
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Dolt and DoltHub now initialize branch `main`
Today we are announcing that with the release of Dolt v0.30.0 , both the Dolt CLI and DoltHub will initialize branch main instead of branch master . This change is backwards compatible, so using this Dolt version with older databases will...
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Somebody Click Me
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-like versioning semantics. Dolt is fast becoming a complete drop-in replacement for MySql . More specifically, this is what Dolt adds to a familiar SQL database: time travel: query the d...
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Announcing Nautobot + Dolt
Last month we published the second blog in a series about running Django on Dolt . Using Dolt as an application-backing store is a new direction for the product. It represents a shift in thinking from "Dolt is a format" to "Dolt is a database" ...
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How To Use Dolt SQL Remotes
TLDR We recently introduced a new Dolt feature: interacting with remotes from SQL server sessions. Dolt is a modern relational database that supports Git style fetch, pull, and push semantics. Although originally developed for the command ...
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US Schools Bounty Retrospective
Our $10,000 US Schools bounty just completed. We assembled a cleaned, free database of US schools . Please use it and let us know what you think . How did we do? This bounty was a little strange because it turned out multiple relativel...
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