- 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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Uncovering MySQL's Gotchas
Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. Dolt comes with a SQL engine built in, which lets you run SQL queries against any version of the data you've committed. Our goal is to become fully SQL compliant and compatible with…...
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Liquidata Inc. is now DoltHub Inc.
Today, we are changing our company name to DoltHub Inc. It's the end of the Liquidata era. We will be changing our emails and all our company branding to reflect the name change. Liquidata Origin Story We...
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Pruning 90% of Dolt's SQL server code
Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. Dolt comes with a SQL engine built in, which lets you run SQL queries against any version of your data you've committed. Dolt's SQL engine is go-mysql-server, which we forked and the...
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Oracle Support in SQL Sync
Dolt is a relational database with Git-like version control features. In particular the underlying data storage format is a commit graph, and each commit represents the complete state (schema and data) of the database at a point in time. Doltpy...
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Introducing Forks
Today, DoltHub released forks. It is the same system that Github uses for collaboration on over 100 million repositories contributed to by their 40+ million users. For the first time there is a general platform for data collaboration, and we hop...
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Using DoltHub for Decentralized Database Collaboration
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. We recently adopted Discord as a low friction way to interact with our customers. It's been a really positive experiment. Our co...
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Tags and Data Releases in Dolt
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like functionality. It allows you to branch, merge, diff and clone data sets, by combining the data structures and algorithms of a relational database with a distributed version control system. DoltHub is ...
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Introducing Column Defaults
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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Dolt Implementation Notes — Push And Pull On a Merkle DAG
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like functionality, including branch, merge and diff and push and pull to remotes. This is a post in a series of posts about the internal workings of some of the core algorithms that underly Dolt's implementation. ...
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Dolt SQL Server MySQL Client Support
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. Dolt ships with a MySQL compatible server that you can start on a repository using dolt sql-server . Once started, you can then connect to the running server using standard MySQL clients. We ...
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Dolt as a Data Management Service
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. What that looks like in practice is a SQL engine sitting on top of a commit graph like storage format. Dolt SQL is a superset of MySQL that provides access to the database at every point in the commit grap...
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August Dataset Spotlight
Every month we highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus is on new or updated datasets but sometimes we shed fresh light on a classic. For those new to Dolt and DoltHub , Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versio...
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Dr. Discord, or: How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Public Chat
Executive summary We are a small startup team building a new database tool called Dolt , which is Git for Data . This is the story of how we chose to use Discord for our open source project. You can join our server now ! The Fe...
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SQL Sync for Schema with SQL Alchemy
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. It behaves like a traditional relational database in that it offers a SQL interface for data and schema management, but the underlying data structure is a commit graph inspired by Git. One natural use-case...
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Announcing DoltHub SQL API
Dolt is Git for data , a relational database built to create, publish and consume datasets. DoltHub hosts a growing collection of public open datasets stored as Dolt databases. DoltHub allows you explore data through its SQL query interfac...
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FBI Crime Data and the Future of Data Distribution
Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub hosts a growing collection of public open datasets. Recently, we created dolthub/fbi-nibrs reflecting the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) crime data. Law enforcement agencies from a...
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Open Source Cypress Testing Suite
Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that hosts Dolt repositories. At the beginning of the year we redesigned DoltHub and decided to try out Cypress as our end-to-end testing solution (similar to how we use Bats tests f...
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Collaborative GPT-3 Dataset
Dolt is Git for data . Recently, we've been thinking a lot about what could be Dolt's Linux . A reader of that blog had a suggestion, an open GPT-3 dataset . Dolt really shines as a collaborative database where many users are making dist...
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Testing DoltHub Using Cypress
Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. At the beginning of Dolt , we adopted Bash Automated Testing System (Bats) for end-to-end testing of the Dolt command-line (check out our blog about Ba...
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Data Integrity for Open Data
Open Data Validation Recently an article made the rounds at our company about "data integrity" checks. The article advocates that in the absence of perfect code that never corrupts data, it's wise to have "data integrity checks" that ensur...
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