- 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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No Food, One Problem. Have Food, Many Problems.
I have been a huge Econtalk fan for over ten years. On his podcast with Sebastian Junger , Russ Roberts brought up what he called a Chinese proverb. No food, one problem. Have food, many problems. The wisdom of this saying really resonated ...
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ImageNet in Dolt
ImageNet is a dataset maintained by the Stanford Vision Lab. It seems to have fallen into disrepair. The links to download the image labels are broken. We have managed to procure all four released versions of the labeled images and import them ...
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Tracking Data Changes with Dolt Blame
Ever look at some data and wonder where a particular value came from, how long it's been there, or what the reason for changing it was? This is important information, but current data storage formats don't track or expose it—certainly not in a…
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Dolt: A Database with Branches
As we discussed in the Where Is the Data Catalog? blog post, Dolt is a database designed for internet-scale collaboration. There are databases with differences, history, rollback, and audit logging. We think the Git semantics of Dolt provi...
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Testing Dolt's SQL Engine
When we first started writing Dolt , we weren’t thinking about SQL functionality. We just knew we wanted a way to package data sets to make them easy to share, collaborate and merge -- to do for data what git did for source code. But as we de...
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WordNet in Dolt
The Princeton WordNet database is on DoltHub . This blog entry will be about how it got there and how to use it. WordNet is distributed natively from Princeton as a compilable custom database . You can also download the database files only b...
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Dolt: A Simple Example
When Dolt and DoltHub first went into private beta, we were surprised that the Iris dataset was the dataset people first tried to put in Dolt. If you are looking for that dataset, we have uploaded it to DoltHub . In this article, we're going t...
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Where Is The Data Catalog?
Why is there no place on the internet to get useful, maintained data? This question has puzzled me since 2013. We can rent a server. We can rent a database. Why can't we rent the data in the database? Something like that would be extremely useful. ...
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