- 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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- SQL6 min read
Joining Multiple Repositories with SQL Queries
In our blogs we have shown over and over again how easy it is to clone data from DoltHub and immediately start querying it with SQL. We are constantly working on improving our data catalog. As we do, there emerge more occasions where you can der...
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Adopting go-mysql-server
go-mysql-server is the SQL query execution engine that powers Dolt and DoltHub . Today we are excited to announce that we are adopting the project after its founding company ceased operations. Our fork of the project has over 400 ad...
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April Dataset Spotlight
This blog entry is the first in a new series. Every month we will highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus will be on new or updated datasets but sometimes we'll shed fresh light on a classic. For those new to Dolt and Dolt...
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Dolt and DoltHub: Publish Using CSVs
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place to share Dolt repositories. Dolt is Git for data. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. We want to host your public data on DoltHub. We think Dolt and DoltHub provide the best sharing ...
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Introducing Dolt to SQL sync
Background While building Dolt and DoltHub, we have had many conversations with our users. They all share an interest in finding better ways to manage data. They recognize that writing code to massage CSV, JSON, and other less well known form...
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Using Dolt to Find Test Regressions
Dolt is Git for data. It's a database that lets you clone, fork, branch, merge and diff. This is a really cool technology that has a lot of uses , but today we're going to focus on just one: using Dolt SQL to find regressions in test resul...
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures in Dolt
TLDR: The NVD is a lot more useful when you can simply clone it and query it. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for the publication of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). The vulnerabilities cata...
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28 grams of Cannabis Data Sets
Happy 4/20! Today is April 20th, the unofficial holiday of marijuana afficionados the world over. Happy 4/20! Or, as we in the data business like to say, Happy 20%! Recreational marijuana has been legal...
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F*#%! you (in 4 languages)
Dolt is to DoltHub as Git is to GitHub - except with Dolt, the unit of versioning is SQL tables. Dolt also has Git-like semantics such as pull, branch and merge. By running dolt pull in a Dolt repository, you know you are getting the most u...
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How Dolt Types Work
UPDATED FEBRUARY 10, 2021: Updated the final table with the types that have been added to Dolt since the article was first written. When we started on Dolt , our goal was to apply Git's idea of versioning to data. Whereas Git versions file...
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Coronavirus State Actions Dataset: A Use Case for Pull Requests
As COVID-19 continues to affect the lives of millions of people around the world, having the most recent and accurate information is an increasingly important tool to help combat the disease. We've been tracking COVID-19 cases for a few months i...
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Dolt and DoltHub: Become a Publisher
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. In Git the unit of versioning is files. In Dolt, the unit of versioning is SQL tables. Dolt will eventually support 100% of the Git command line and 100% of MySQL SQL. Moreover, anything you can d...
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Data CI with DoltHub Webhooks
Dolt and DoltHub are Git and GitHub for data . The same way that GitHub enables collaboration on source code repositories in Git format, DoltHub enables collaboration on data repositories in Dolt format. A very common workflow on GitHub i...
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Tracking SQL Correctness and Performance Regressions in Dolt
Tracking Dolt's SQL regressions As part of our journey to make Dolt a great SQL database, we set out to track the correctness of Dolt’s SQL engine against a suite of SQL tests called the sqllogictests . These tests are what we use to measur...
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Dolt for Git Noobs
TL;DR Dolt is a SQL database with built-in Git versioning, branching, and distribution semantics that makes collaborating on and distributing data effortless. What Git does for files, Dolt does for data. Where Git versions files, a...
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How Dolt Stores Table Data
Dolt is Git for data . It's a SQL database that lets you clone, branch, diff, merge, and fork your data just like you can with a filesystem tree in Git. This blog post explores one of the fundamental datastructures that underlies Dolt's impleme...
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Dolt Use Cases
Dolt is Git for data. Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. As far as we can tell, Dolt is the only database with branches . How would you use such a thing? One o...
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Who's at Risk of COVID-19 in the US Congress?
Overview In this blog post, we discuss an approach for simulating an outbreak of COVID-19 in the US Congress. This is a long technical article about data sets, epidemiology, and simulation. Feel free to jump straight to the results of ...
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How We Built DoltHub: Front-End Architecture
In the previous article in this series, we took a deep look at the overall system architecture of DoltHub , the online data community powered by the Dolt version-controlled database. In this article, we'll zoom in on the front end and see h...
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Testing Dolt using Bats
We adopted Bash Automated Testing System (Bats) to test the Dolt command-line. As of March 10, 2020 we are up to 473 tests, though 55 are skipped because they currently fail. The tests define desired behavior so we're constantly working to ge...
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