Tim Sehn

February 6, 2025

In databases, the new hot hotness is vector indexes. Here at DoltHub , we're not immune to the hype. We released support for vector indexes a couple weeks ago. But what are vectors and vector indexes? Why put them in databases? Before I wro...

Jason Fulghum

February 5, 2025

Dolt 1.49.0 removes the ability to specify a username and password as arguments when starting a sql-server. This blog post explains why we removed it, and how you can manage users in Dolt using standard SQL syntax.

Nick Tobey

February 4, 2025

There's lots of ways to use Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database : You can run Dolt locally and manage your DB with our Git-like command line interface. You can run Dolt as a drop-in replacement for your MySQL serve...

Tim Sehn

February 3, 2025

One of the coolest things about Dolt is DoltHub . DoltHub is the place on the internet to find, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. If you find a cool database on DoltHub you want to play with, a good option is to copy it, or clone it in...

Nick Tobey

January 30, 2025

This is the fourth in a series of tests putting Dolt head-to-head against other database engines to see how they handle large JSON documents, comparing their design, performance, and implementation choices. Up until now, we've only been compa...

Dustin Brown

January 29, 2025

A look at the internal tables used to store CI configuration in Dolt.

Tim Sehn

January 28, 2025

DoltHub has been cranking away in the version controlled database space for six and a half years now. Those of you that have been following us since the beginning know that Dolt and DoltHub started as a data sharing tool . In service of t...

Zach Musgrave

January 27, 2025

Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. But it didn't start its life as a version-controlled database. It started as a command line tool for sharing datasets . And that history has shaped how you install and get star...

Jason Fulghum

January 24, 2025

Dolt is easy to query from Go apps. In this post, we show how to use the low-level database/sql package and the third-party sqlx library to query a Dolt sql-server.

Tim Sehn

January 23, 2025

Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. What does that mean in practice? We've been building Dolt for over six years now. We've been writing three blog articles a week for five years and five blog articles a week for almost a year. As we've produ...

Neil Macneale

January 22, 2025

Fetching a lot of redundant tags should be fast - Now it is!

Max Hoffman

January 17, 2025

We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first version-controlled SQL database. This blog discusses how we sped up our table scans by 24% by avoiding interfaces at critical junctions. Interfaces Are Handy They modularize code along lines ...

Nick Tobey

January 16, 2025

Dolt now allows tables to index vector columns in order to optimize Approximate Nearest Neighbor searches.

Jason Fulghum

January 15, 2025

The Dolt root superuser is now persisted to disk and restricted to localhost by default

Dustin Brown

January 8, 2025

DoltLab Enterprise can now run in offline mode! Read more to learn how you can get started with offline Enterprise today.

Liu Liu

January 7, 2025

Learn how to synchronize your branches with remotes using the new fetch and sync features in the Dolt Workbench.

Jason Fulghum

January 6, 2025

Using Dolt's rebasing support can help you keep your development branches tidy, as demonstrated with a video game configuration example

Zach Musgrave

January 3, 2025

We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As a database program, Dolt has to deal with lots of large data objects. Oftentimes, these large objects are deeply n...

Tim Sehn

January 2, 2025

Here at DoltHub , we tell users " Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL". We're also quick to remind users that "There is no MySQL code in Dolt". Dolt is built from the storage engine up to be MySQL-compatible but also offer Git-style version...

Tim Sehn

December 30, 2024

Spotify Wrapped popularized a version of the "year in review" format. Now everything is "wrapped". Why can't Dolt be wrapped too? Turns out, Dolt can be wrapped! We're ripping off Spotify's gimmick (but not personalizing it) for Dolt's Year in...