Tim Sehn

August 18, 2021

It's time for another data bounty. Today, we're launching a $10,000 bounty to collect basic identifying data about schools in the United States. We seeded the database with California K through 12 Schools. Only 49 states (and the District of Columb...

Max Hoffman

August 16, 2021

About Dolt Web services make heavy use of versioning and open source sharing as a daily part of development. Production deployment is increasingly automated by AWS and other cloud services. Sandboxing, testing, and offline debuggability incre...

Brian Hendriks

August 13, 2021

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that uniquely supports version control operations such as branch, merge, and diff. Aaron Son has blogged about how Dolt stores data in a prolly tree in order to support these operations efficiently ....

Tim Sehn

August 11, 2021

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-like versioning semantics. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Databases are notoriously unforgiving. We all know a person who accidentally ran a bad query in production and ...

Max Hoffman

August 9, 2021

Introduction Dolt is a new relational database with Git style versioning and offline debuggability. To be used as an application database, Dolt must be a drop in replacement for other SQL databases. We started with MySQL, the most frequently ...

Zach Musgrave

August 6, 2021

Great art is never truly finished, only abandoned. And great, living software is the same way. It's never done, but always in a state of constant flux between additions and rewrites. Software engineers are a curmudgeonly sort, and sometimes we like...

Taylor Bantle

August 4, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. About a year ago we set off on a journey to make adding and editing data on DoltHub possible. Our goal was to ease collaboration on data using Dolt and D...

Tim Sehn

August 2, 2021

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...

Dustin Brown

July 30, 2021

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...

Katie McCulloch

July 28, 2021

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 ...

Tim Sehn

July 26, 2021

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 ...

Aaron Son

July 23, 2021

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...

Daylon Wilkins

July 21, 2021

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...

Brian Hendriks

July 19, 2021

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 ...

Vinai Rachakonda

July 16, 2021

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...

Taylor Bantle

July 14, 2021

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...

Katie McCulloch

July 9, 2021

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...

Katie McCulloch

July 7, 2021

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…

Tim Sehn

July 2, 2021

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...

Brian Hendriks

June 30, 2021

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...