Zach MusgraveandTim Sehn

March 9, 2021

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...

Taylor Bantle

March 8, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

March 3, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

March 1, 2021

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...

Zach Musgrave

February 26, 2021

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...

Tim Sehn

February 24, 2021

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...

Remy Ochei

February 22, 2021

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...

Max Hoffman

February 22, 2021

Dolt Dolt is an SQL-database with Git-versioning. The goal of Doltpy , in concert with Dolt , is to solve reproducibility and versioning problems for data and machine learning engineers using Python. Mypy Mypy was created by Guid...

Vinai Rachakonda

February 19, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. In a previous post we discussed the need to introduce Dolt CLI functions in SQL. We believe that version control is something that can be native to your SQL workflow. This allows for possibilit...

Tim Sehn

February 15, 2021

On December 14, we launched our first data bounty to earn a share of $25,000 by wrangling US Presidential Precinct-level data . The bounty ended yesterday. How did it go? This blog entry will answer that question. Dolt is a SQL database w...

Oscar Batori

February 12, 2021

Background Earlier in the week we talked about Dolt's "API surface area." To recap, Dolt is a relational database with version control features. Dolt has a SQL query interface implementing the MySQL dialect, as well as a command line inter...

Daylon Wilkins

February 10, 2021

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 fe...

Oscar Batori

February 8, 2021

Background When DoltHub was founded it was called Liquidata. The goal was to bring liquidity to the data market. The founders realized that the pipes were broken: sending around CSV, JSON, and other formats was broken. The requirement to tran...

Taylor Bantle

February 5, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. It's a Next.js application written in Typescript, backed by a GraphQL server that calls gRPC services written in Golang. We use Apollo 's buil...

Dustin Brown

February 3, 2021

How it Started For those following along, we've been working on improving Dolt's performance with the goal of making Dolt no more than 2-4 times slower than MySQL . When we set out to measure Dolt's performance we chose Sysbench , a wi...

Tim Sehn

February 1, 2021

It's that time. Our January dataset spotlight here at DoltHub . For the 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...

Katie McCulloch

January 27, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share and collaborate on Dolt databases. We built DoltHub because we thought it would be useful to interact with versioned SQL databases in familiar ways. For example, query public data on the web, or c...

Tim Sehn

January 25, 2021

In October, we set out to hire more engineers to work on Dolt and DoltHub . Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place to share Dolt repositories. Since then, we added three engineers: Vinai , Remy , and Ma...

Zach Musgrave

January 22, 2021

Introduction Today we're excited to announce the open sourcing of a tool to automatically generate markdown formatted release notes for GitHub repositories . Dolt is using this tool to generate our release notes going forward, and we've ...

Vinai Rachakonda

January 20, 2021

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database with version control. We've been working hard recently on making Dolt a useful tool for Data Science (DS) practitioners and we're hoping to launch some slick integrations soon. But first, we wanted to start...