Tim Sehn

November 19, 2021

Dolt is a version controlled database . How would one use such a thing? Do you build an application to collect configuration data? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects when data changes or do defects manifest downstream a...

Brian Hendriks

November 17, 2021

Yesterday we quietly rolled out a preview of hosted Dolt . You can visit any of your databases on DoltHub , and click a button to get a cloud instance running Dolt sql server. Don't have a database? You can create a new one, or fork an exist...

Zach Musgrave

November 15, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database with git-like version control capabilities, the only SQL database you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull like a git repository. Very early in the development lifecycle, we committed to copying git's workflo...

Andy Arthur

November 12, 2021

If you haven't heard, DoltHub is building a database . Dolt is the only SQL database you can branch, merge, diff and clone. It's a MySQL compatible database with version control . As Dolt matures into a fully-featured relational database, a maj...

Vinai Rachakonda

November 10, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, and merge. In previous posts we've discussed the implementation of joins with primitives such as join planning and index accesses . We've taken another step in join compatibility by impl...

Taylor Bantle

November 8, 2021

DoltHub is a web-based UI to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We use Figma , a popular collaborative interface design tool, to work with our designer Jan on designs for our website. Before we started using Figma our des...

Dustin Brown

November 5, 2021

A little over a year ago I blogged about publishing the FBI NIBRS Crime Data on DoltHub . In that blog, I describe the dataset the FBI publishes and discuss some of the challenges of working with large amounts of data in the standard CSV format. ...

Spacelove

November 3, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

November 1, 2021

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...

Aaron Son

October 29, 2021

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....

Tim Sehn

October 27, 2021

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...

Zach Musgrave

October 25, 2021

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...

Brian Fitzgerald

October 23, 2021

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...

Max Hoffman

October 20, 2021

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...

Taylor Bantle

October 18, 2021

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...

Aaron Son

October 15, 2021

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...

Dustin Brown

October 13, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

October 11, 2021

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...

Max Hoffman

October 8, 2021

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...

Zach Musgrave

October 6, 2021

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...