- 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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- FEATURE RELEASEWEB3 min read
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...
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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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So you want Database Version Control?
Database Version Control is a poorly ranked Google search. For me, it starts with a horizontally scroll-able section on code version control: irrelevant. Then, next up is ads for Redgate , Liquibase , and verta.ai...
Read More - WEB12 min read
Managing State with React and Apollo Client
DoltHub is a Next.js application written in Typescript and backed by a GraphQL server. We use Apollo 's built-in integration with React to manage our GraphQL data within our React components. If you want to know more about DoltHub's ar...
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Announcing Janky Hosted DoltHub Databases
We all know that self-hosting a database is a challenging and daunting task. The hosting environment needs to have all the database's dependencies, must have the proper user/group permissions, and requires a slew of other nuanced, properly configur...
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2020 Census
Having accurate information on where people live within a country is of critical importance to the function of that country's government. The United States constitution mandates that congress hold a census every 10 years. It is a labor-intensive an...
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How to Fix a Bug in Dolt's SQL Engine
Dolt is an open-source SQL database that has Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, push and pull. As we attract more and more users with various use cases and ways of integrating Dolt into their existing workflows and systems, i...
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Announcing the $10,000 US Businesses Bounty
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 this new data bounty. Announcing the $10,000 US Bus...
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A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
Go is a great language. Really, it is! We complain about the rough edges, but on the whole it's been a great choice for us, and we're not sorry we picked it. But just for fun, let's talk about some of those rou...
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Faster than MySQL? An investigation
Introduction At DoltHub, we are obsessed with Dolt's performance. In the past we've written about Sysbench , our primary benchmarking mechanism for comparing our performance to MySQL's. Every time we run a release of Dolt we run a CI-job th...
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Unleash the Fuzz
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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Django and Dolt part II
Back in June, we wrote about running Django on Dolt . We described our journey from Dolt as "Git for Data" to what we are today: a MySQL compatible relational database that is 99% SQL compliant . To fulfill our vision as a drop-in replacement f...
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A Poorman's Pachyderm: Do we need enterprise ML platforms?
Developing machine learning infrastructure is a competitive new space. Machine learning operations (MLOps) promises to replace stodgy, manual scripts with automated and reproducible pipelines, unlocking priceless volumes of business value in the…
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Dolt and Images
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that uniquely supports version control operations such as branch, merge, and diff. Over the past couple of months, our customers have been asking us to support the loading and versioning of files, particularly…
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Menus bounty retrospective
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. This blog is a retrospective on the menus bounty that launched on July 14th and wrapped on Au...
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