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...

Taylor Bantle

October 4, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

October 1, 2021

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?...

Dustin Brown

September 29, 2021

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...

Brian Fitzgerald

September 27, 2021

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...

Andy Arthur

September 24, 2021

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" ...

Max Hoffman

September 22, 2021

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 ...

Tim Sehn

September 20, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

September 16, 2021

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...

Taylor Bantle

September 15, 2021

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...

Dustin Brown

September 13, 2021

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...

Brian Hendriks

September 10, 2021

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...

Aaron Son

September 8, 2021

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...

Spacelove

September 7, 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 this new data bounty. Announcing the $10,000 US Bus...

Zach Musgrave

September 3, 2021

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...

Vinai Rachakonda

August 31, 2021

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...

Daylon Wilkins

August 30, 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...