1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    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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  1. REFERENCE
    4 min read

    So you want a Git Database?

    Dolt is a "Git Database". Why are we ranking rather low (around 10th) for the query on Google ? Why are Liquibase , Planetscale , and TerminusDB , other products in the Git database space, not ranked at all? It makes no sense. This blog a...

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  2. SQL
    2 min read

    Persisting Dolt Configs

    Database configuration isn't the most exciting topic. Developers dislike prolonged onboarding, preferring to dive straight into application building. Because Dolt marries the concepts of Git And MySQL, we maintain two sets of configurations…

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  3. VIDEO
    1 min read

    Dolt, The Developer Friendly Database

    Dolt, The Developer Friendly Database Dolt is a version controlled database . With Dolt, you get all the convenience of Git-style source code control in your database, for both data and schema. Imagine your database supercharged with t...

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  4. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    6 min read

    Creating multiple databases in Dolt

    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. Until very recently, Dolt was lacking a very basic ability that almost every o...

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  5. USE CASEINTEGRATION
    5 min read

    Dolt + Nautobot: Version Control for Configuration

    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...

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  6. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Hosted Dolt

    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...

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  7. 11 min read

    Writing zsh completions for CLIs with subcommands

    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...

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  8. GOLANG
    6 min read

    Programming the Stack: Golang Patterns for Performance

    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...

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  9. SQL
    6 min read

    Update Join

    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...

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  10. 5 min read

    DoltHub is the Figma of Databases

    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...

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  11. DATASET
    6 min read

    Updating FBI Crime Data on DoltHub

    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. ...

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  12. BOUNTY
    2 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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  13. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    $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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  14. GOLANG
    6 min read

    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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  15. 3 min read

    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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  16. SQL
    7 min read

    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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  17. 3 min read

    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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  18. 6 min read

    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...

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  19. WEB
    3 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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  20. REFERENCE
    8 min read

    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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