- 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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- DOLTGRES5 min read
Update on pg_catalog Support in Doltgres
It's our goal to make Doltgres , a Postgres-flavored version of Dolt , a drop-in replacement for Postgres. A few weeks ago Zach wrote a blog about our design dilemma for implementing the pg_catalog schema: should we diverge from Postgr...
Read More - GOLANG12 min read
Writing generic collection types in Go: the missing documentation
Introduction Go generics were released in Go 1.18, over two years ago. We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database, and while we have hundreds of thousands of lines of Go code, we haven't used generics v...
Read More - INTEGRATION13 min read
Getting Started with Dolt and Prisma
Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database , offering full MySQL compatibility. This means that all tools you typically use with MySQL, including Prisma , work seamlessly with Dolt. Prisma ORM is an open-source toolkit desig...
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How to set up AWS SES for DoltLab
DoltLab is the self-hosted version of DoltHub that lets you manage and customize a web-based Dolt remote complete with pull-request style workflows for seamless database collaboration. If you're looking to try DoltLab for the first time,...
Read More - SQL3 min read
Correctness Update
Welcome back to another installment of Dolt's monthly correctness updates! Here's last month's update , in case you missed it. This month, a couple new Dolt customers came to us with a variety of issues; they uncovered panics, syntax errors, and ...
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Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data
Designing a schema for your relational database is a daunting task that has long term implications for the database's performance, maintainability, and correctness. And it often requires making decisions before having a clear picture of the exact…
Read More - USE CASE3 min read
Dolt + Threekit: Add Version Control to Your Application
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database . How would you use such a thing? Are you building a data curation application for your customers? Are your customers asking for version control features like branches, merges, and diffs on the data ...
Read More - SQL8 min read
Three Ways To Think About Channels
One of Golang's steepest learning curves is how to use channels. At the practical level, channels are locked, buffered queues. Their API matches that of a queue, the implementation is a queue, and I find it easiest to write and read channel code...
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Start earning achievements on DoltHub!
Introducing Badges on DoltHub: Celebrate Your Milestones As DoltHub continues to grow, we’re excited to see more users actively engaging — creating databases, merging pull requests, and opening issues. Following our previous blog about ...
Read More - TECHNICALREFERENCE24 min read
Three-way Merge in a SQL Database
Dolt implements a Git-style commit graph on top of a Prolly-tree -based storage engine . This architecture makes Dolt the world's first and only version controlled SQL database . One of the major capabilities a version controlled SQL ...
Read More - DOLTGRESINTEGRATION2 min read
Doltgres SQL Server Postgres Client Support
Doltgres is a version-controlled, PostgreSQL-compatible database. This means any standard Postgres client should connect to the Doltgres server. Today’s blog shares an update on how far we are to support the standard Postgres SQL clients. We r...
Read More - TECHNICAL14 min read
Deep Dive on MySQL's Replication Protocol
MySQL's replication protocol is widely used to help systems achieve high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy. The replication protocol was originally introduced waaaay back in 2000, and in the more than two decades since then, the…
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Dolt Is 25% Faster Running TPC-C
Dolt is the first relational database that versions data the same way Git versions source code. Dolt is 100% MySQL compliant and implements Git's interface with the same "proportional to diff" runtime. We spend a lot of time making sure we compe...
Read More - DOLTLAB16 min read
DoltLab Cloud Storage
We recently released DoltLab v2.1.6 which allows DoltLab Enterprise to use cloud storage, instead of disk storage on the DoltLab host. At the time of this writing, only AWS cloud resources are supported. This blog will walk you through set...
Read More - SQLFEATURE RELEASE5 min read
The Exciting Future of JSON on Dolt
tl;dr: Querying JSON documents in Dolt is about to get a huge performance boost. Beginning with Dolt 1.40, we're changing the way that Dolt writes JSON documents to disk. This will allow us to greatly improve performance when working with JSON. T...
Read More - TECHNICALDOLTGRES4 min read
pg_catalog: read only, or read-write?
Introduction We're hard at work building Doltgres , a Postgres-compatible database with git-inspired version control features. Our long-term goal is to be a drop-in replacement for Postgres, so that application developers can use Doltgres w...
Read More - USE CASE2 min read
Dolt + FJA: Version Control in Your Application
Dolt is a version controlled SQL database . How would you use such a thing? Are you building a data curation application for your customers? Are your customers asking for version control features like branches, merges, and diffs? Are you loo...
Read More - REFERENCE4 min read
Pandas DataFrames Works With Dolt
Today's blog we will go over a simple way to utilize Pandas Dataframes using Dolt's version control features. Pandas Dataframes simplify data manipulation and analysis. Dolt simplifies data sharing and collaboration. Combining the two, a user can…
Read More - DOLTLABREFERENCE7 min read
Getting Started: DoltLab + GCP
We're on a DoltLab documentation tear. A few weeks ago, I wrote a Getting Started blog that outlined how to get DoltLab installed on an AWS EC2 host . Upon customer request, Dustin wrote a blog on how to get DoltLab set up on Azure . Toda...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASE5 min read
Introducing Embedded Dolt Commands in `dolt sql`
In the SQL universe, there are many tools which people use to interact with their data. There are applications like DBeaver which is a full GUI Application, or Dolt's WorkBench which uses a browser for its GUI components. On the other end of ...
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