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. INTEGRATION
    2 min read

    Making Dolt Compatible With SQL Editors

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We've been working hard to make Dolt fully compatible with MySQL. An important test for compatibility is support for MySQL editors. These editors provide user interfaces for you to inspect data...

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  2. 2 min read

    Dolt Ditched the Contributor License Agreement

    Dolt is an open source database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Dolt is collectively our team's first major open source endeavor. We're learning as we go. We recently ditched our…...

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  3. DATASET
    1 min read

    March Dataset Spotlight

    It's that time. Our March dataset spotlight here at DoltHub . For new folks, Dolt is a SQL database with git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. This monthly feature keeps you updated on Data Bount...

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  4. 2 min read

    Private Repositories are Free

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is Dolt's GitHub . A few weeks ago, we made private repositories free up to 1GB and announced it on Twitter. This blog explains why we made pr...

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  5. 5 min read

    Data Bounties and Open Data

    "Open Data" is quickly attaining the hype and ambiguity of previous tech crazes like "Big Data" and "Block Chain". The motivation behind Open Data is easy to understand: data is one of the most valuable but closely guarded resources in the tech…...

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  6. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    8 min read

    Common Table Expressions (WITH)

    Introduction Dolt is Git for data. It's a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a Git repository. We're committed to supporting 100% of the functionality offered by Git and 100% of the functionality offere...

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  7. PYTHONINTEGRATION
    6 min read

    Dolt with Popular DataFrame Tools

    Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database. For data science (DS) workflows, specifically, Dolt uses data versioning primitives to implement unique flavors of reproducibility. DataFrames are a common interface for exploring CSV, Parquet and other...

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  8. BOUNTY
    4 min read

    Assembling a Grand Catalog—A Data Bounty Retrospective

    Should you use DoltHub Bounties for your data-wrangling needs? Our bounty partners wanted to assemble a “master” catalog of all the college courses taught in the United States. For them, it was an easy riddle. To recap, a partner approached u...

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  9. SQL
    6 min read

    Recent Improvements to Join Planning in Dolt

    Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt's SQL functionality is built on top of a SQL engine written in Golang . We've previously blogged about our first steps in optimi...

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  10. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    Merging and Resolving Conflicts Programmatically with SQL

    In the first part of this two part blog we covered concurrent connection handling within dolt sql-server . We learned about session state, how to commit changes, and how to persist those changes across sessions. Today we'll talk about the expl...

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  11. REFERENCE
    16 min read

    dolt sql-server Concurrency

    Update 2021-08-02 : Dolt now supports SQL transactions with COMMIT , ROLLBACK , SAVEPOINT and the other MySQL transaction primitives, so it's now safe to run the SQL server out of the box with multiple readers and writers. The techniques de...

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  12. BOUNTY
    1 min read

    Introducing the Logo-2k+Extended $10k Data Bounty

    Today, we’re launching our 4th bounty. Our previous three on the Presidential Election , Hospital Pricing , and College Course Catalogs have been eminent successes, if I do say so myself. Bounties are a really great way to assemble open d...

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  13. SQLFEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Introducing Stored Procedures

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With each new version of Dolt , we increase the number of supported SQL features, moving toward our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL, while adding all of the versioning fea...

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  14. USE CASE
    9 min read

    Dolt Use Cases in the Wild

    About a year ago, we wrote a blog post about how we thought people might use Dolt, the SQL database you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository. At the time we wrote it, we didn't have any paying customers, and w...

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  15. FEATURE RELEASEWEB
    3 min read

    Edit Dolt on the Web Using SQL

    DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Last week we released a new feature on our edit on the web roadmap : edit data using the SQL Console. About a year ago when we released SQL querie...

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  16. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    Hospital Price Transparency Bounty Review

    We finished our second data bounty Monday, March 1. The target of the bounty was hospital prices . The results surpassed our expectations. We built a database of 1,400 of approximately 6,000 US hospital's chargemasters, representing over 72.7M...

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  17. DATASET
    2 min read

    February Dataset Spotlight

    It's that time. Our February dataset spotlight here at DoltHub . For new folks, Dolt is a SQL database with git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. This monthly feature keeps you updated on Data Bo...

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  18. SQLREFERENCE
    7 min read

    Implementing window functions in go-mysql-server

    Dolt is Git for Data, the first SQL database you can clone, fork, branch and merge. Its SQL engine is go-mysql-server . Our goal is to be a 100% compatible, drop-in replacement for MySQL, but we have a ways to go. Today we're excited to announc...

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  19. BOUNTY
    6 min read

    OpenElections Follow Up

    As some of you are aware, we finished our first data bounty on Feb. 14 to collect US Presidential Precinct results for 2016 and 2020 . On Feb. 15, we published a bounty review . The bounty review gained some distribution on HackerNews aft...

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  20. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    National Course Catalog $10,000 Database Bounty

    It's time for another data bounty ! We completed the US Presidential Election Precinct Results bounty and we have a week or so left in the Hospital Price Transparency bounty . For the next bounty, we want to build a database of US Colle...

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