- 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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Is Dolt a Blockchain?
From Dolt's inception, we shied away from blockchain hype. Dolt looks more like a traditional SQL database with Git-style features than something that could power a digital coin. Dolt is not targeting traditional blockchain use cases. But over t...
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Benchmarking SQL Reads on EBS and S3
Recently, we conducted some quick and dirty read latency smell tests comparing reads against Amazon's EBS volumes to reads against Amazon's S3 . We ran these to test our hypothesis that a proposed infrastructure project would be a worthwhil...
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How the menus bounty broke DoltHub
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with branch, merge and diff. DoltHub is a place on the internet to host, share and query Dolt databases. If you’re just hearing about the menus bounty, here is menus launch blog. If you're new to data ...
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Dolt as an Immutable Database
Dolt is Git for data. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. In a recent discussion with a potential customer, the customer thought we did not make a big enough deal of Dolt being immutable at a commit. If you provide the ...
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An Overview of DoltHub Infrastructure
DoltHub is our web application for working with, sharing and collaborating on Dolt databases. We host dolt remotes and run bounties on DoltHub, among other things. Sometimes when talking with customers or candidates, we get questions abo...
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Merging Branches with Foreign Keys
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With each new version of Dolt , we increase the number of supported SQL features. We're moving toward our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL, while adding all of the versio...
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Dolt without DoltHub: Other Dolt Remotes
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning, and like git, when you want to make your data available to others you need a place to push it to so others can clone / pull it. In both Git and Dolt this is called a remote. A remote is simply ...
Read More - INTEGRATION7 min read
Dolt and Ecto/Elixir
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. A couple of months ago, our team was introduced to an engineering team that wanted to use Elixir with Dolt. Elixir is a "dynamic, functional language", based off the Erlang VM. We thought it wa...
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Improving Diffs on DoltHub
DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Diffing between different versions of data is a big part of what makes Dolt unique as a database, and we revamped our diff page on DoltHub to better show...
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Wrapping up collaborative PDAP data bounty
Dolt is a MySQL database that can branch, diff and merge. Every 6 weeks we launch a data bounty and pay contributors to build unique, public databases. Payment is based on the percent of cell edits a participant makes. This Wednesday, July 7, we...
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Announcing the $10,000 Menus Data Bounty
If you aren’t yet familiar with Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is a MySQL database that can branch, diff and merge. DoltHub hosts those databases on the web. We are currently running data bounties , a string of collaborative database projects in which…
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Manage by Blog Post
Any frequent visitor to DoltHub knows we publish a lot of blog posts. How many? Three per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Everyone at the company writes them. Why do we do that? This blog post will answer why. A blog post about writing b...
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Stripping Features to Improve Write Performance
When we began working on Dolt in 2018 we leveraged Noms , an open source project that gave us efficient diff and merge capabilities. The company that had built Noms , Attic Labs, pitched it to developers as a decentralized application data...
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Hitting 99% Correctness for our SQL Database
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. One of our biggest priorities is ensuring that Dolt is a drop in replacement for any MySQL database. That means any query that can be run on a MySQL database must run correctly on a Dolt as well. ...
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The Search for Dolt Adopters and the Ideal Customer Profile
Hi, I'm New Here So for those of you that are new here too and I hope there are many of you, Dolt is a database with Git-like features. In Marvel terms, we took your standard base and gave it superpowers. You can branch, merge, and collabora...
Read More - INTEGRATION8 min read
Versioning Google Sheets With Dolt and GitHub Actions
Introduction We will learn how to version control Google Sheets data using Dolt and GitHub Actions today. This is intended for teams who might benefit from a Pull-Request process for managing Google Sheets data changes, complete with strong t...
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Copying all of MySQL's dumbest decisions
Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, and merge. Those are the features you won't find in any other SQL database. But what about the features you can find in any other database? What if you need those to wor...
Read More - INTEGRATION8 min read
Change Data Capture With Kedro and Dolt
Introduction We are pleased to introduce a Kedro-Dolt plugin, a collaboration between Quantum Black Labs and DoltHub designed to expand the data versioning abilities of data scientists and engineers. You will find this useful if you are...
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Better Data with Great Expectations + Dolt
Background An explosion of data driven products and business processes is creating an urgent need for best practices to ensure data reaching end users is high quality. This data could be in the form of machine learning models, combining upstr...
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Dolt is a Database
Aaron, Brian and I founded DoltHub as Liquidata in 2018. Our mission was to add liquidity to the data market. How could we get more data shared? Our main hypothesis was adding branch/merge functionality as in source code to data would facilitate…
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