Zach Musgrave

December 7, 2020

Dolt is Git for Data. It's a SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull, just like files in Git. Today we're going to be talking about our quest to get Dolt's branding right, and our first attempt to find a mascot that…

Oscar Batori

December 4, 2020

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. Dolt's query interface is SQL, and it has Git-like version control features. Adding version control features to a SQL database has performance trade offs when comparing Dolt with traditional databases li...

Tim Sehn

December 2, 2020

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...

Andy Arthur

November 30, 2020

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for filter-branch in Dolt. "Customer focus" is a mantra for our company. In A...

Dustin Brown

November 23, 2020

Github Actions FTW Not too long ago we endeavored to migrate Dolt's continuous integration pipeline from Jenkins to Github Actions . I wrote a blog about that process and complimented Github Actions on making the migration process int...

Aaron Son

November 20, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt targets compatibility with MySQL as an existing SQL dialect and wire protocol. We built Dolt on top of an excellent open-source…

Oscar Batori

November 17, 2020

"Database version control" and "version controlled database" are not the same thing. Version controlling your database refers to the practice of storing schema and schema modifications in a traditional source control system like Git. "Version…

Brian Hendriks

November 16, 2020

When Tim , Aaron , and I started working on this problem in August 2018 we immediately began playing with Noms . It was an open source project that gave us a lot of the things Aaron and I had been talking about in order to deliver the feat...

Taylor Bantle

November 13, 2020

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. A few weeks ago I wrote about merging pull requests on DoltHub and our roadmap for "edit on the web". We're working on reducing friction for collaboratin...

Oscar Batori

November 11, 2020

We originally built Dolt because we thought that existing data distribution formats were broken. In particular, we believed that consumers of data should not have to parse various formats (CSV, JSON, etc.), write ingestion logic and decide on up...

Zach Musgrave

November 9, 2020

After four years of incredibly rancorous discourse about whether the US President was illegitimately elected with the help of foreign interference, it should surprise no one that the 2020 presidential election is mired in similar claims of…

Andy Arthur

November 6, 2020

Dolt is a database built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. We intend to become a fully MySQL compatible database. Today, we're announcing support ...

Oscar Batori

November 1, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features. It presents a familiar SQL interface while exposing Git-like primitives for versioning tables and their data. Doltpy is a Python API for interacting with Dolt in Python. This post detai...

Tim Sehn

October 30, 2020

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...

Zach Musgrave

October 28, 2020

Dolt is Git for Data, a SQL database you can branch, merge, clone, fork, sync, push and pull. Today we're excited to announce the release of a new optimization in the query planner: pushing down filters! What's a pushdown? Pushdown is a ...

Brian Hendriks

October 26, 2020

When we began working on Dolt we made the decision to build on top of Noms . Noms stores data in a content addressable DAG , and has countless applications. It was a great starting point for us to build Dolt , and it let us hit the ground...

Taylor Bantle

October 23, 2020

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. We use Cypress.io as our end-to-end testing solution for DoltHub. To learn more about our journey with Cypress, check out our previous blogs: W...

Tim Sehn

October 21, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. It takes a strong technical team to build a database from the storage engine up even when you get head start from open source p...

Andy Arthur

October 16, 2020

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for garbage collection in Dolt. To manage on-disk storage f...

Tim Sehn

October 14, 2020

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to store and share Dolt databases. Python is the language of data science. As such, we created Doltpy , a Python interface to Dolt. We continu...