Zach Musgrave

May 25, 2023

This article discusses the technical details of writing integration tests that manage multiple sub-processes in Golang, including attaching debuggers to the new processes. It's part of our our technical Golang blog series. We publish a new article...

Alec Stein

May 24, 2023

Hospital price data is pretty damn tedious to collect . There thousands of different formats for these files, which by and large contain the same kind of data, just phrased differently. That makes it expensive to buy and time consuming to make. ...

Tim Sehn

May 22, 2023

Nike is synonymous with the "Just Do It" ad campaign. Some people think "Dolt" is "DoIt", "Do It" with the space removed. Notice there is no difference in some fonts, like the one we use for this blog. No one would name their database Dolt, as in "...

Daylon Wilkins

May 19, 2023

Sometimes, the most complicated solution may end up being the simplest. This sounds like a contradiction, but it depends on where a project's priorities lay. I'm an engineer here at DoltHub , and about 9 months ago I implemented collation su...

Taylor Bantle

May 17, 2023

We have two web products for Dolt : DoltHub and Hosted Dolt . DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt and Hosted is AWS RDS for Dolt. Each product has different use cases depending on your goals, but there are also reasons to use DoltHub and Hos...

Zach Musgrave

May 15, 2023

In my pre-startup life I worked at Google, a company that has some pretty incredible, internal-only technology that you won't find anywhere else. An entire engineering culture has developed around the availability of these technologies, and it's…

Dustin Brown

May 12, 2023

For the past few months at DoltHub , we've been really excited about the release of Dolt 1.0 . If you missed it, it dropped last Friday May 5th. Dolt 1.0 is the first stable release of Dolt and guarantees forward storage compatibility, produ...

Pavel Safronov

May 10, 2023

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that allows branching, diffing, and merging database changes. In this blog post, we will discuss how Dolt is being used with a network automation solution called Nautobot and the recent fixes we've had to ma...

Tim Sehn

May 8, 2023

There are a bunch of ways to get started with Dolt , the word's first and only version controlled database . You can run Dolt locally as a version controlled database or as Git for Data . You can start using Dolt by sharing data on Do...

Tim Sehn

May 5, 2023

Today, we launched Dolt 1.0 , signaling that the world's first and only version controlled SQL database is ready for your production workloads. We started DoltHub in August 2018 with the idea that data sharin...

Nick Tobey

May 3, 2023

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. Think of it as Git for Data : Git versions files, and Dolt versions tables. In its typical use case, users commit changes to the database, and in git-like fashion, those com...

Andy Arthur

May 1, 2023

Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. Its powerful branch and merge model is exposed through a familiar Git-style interface. In fact, Dolt's connection to Git goes beyond interface compatibility. At the storage laye...

Brian Hendriks

April 28, 2023

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. This means that you can branch, merge, and diff your data just like you would with code. These are powerful features, but they can be confusing to users who aren't used to workin...

Aaron Son

April 26, 2023

Almost two years ago, my colleague Brian blogged about how to use Dolt with different types of supported remotes . The most accessible type of Dolt remote is a database on DoltHub , but, as outlined in that previous blog, there are a number of ...

Zach Musgrave

April 22, 2023

Naming products is hard. We wrote the world's first version controlled SQL database, which we called Dolt . We named it that way to pay homage to how Linus Torvalds says he named git: Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which...

Alec Stein

April 21, 2023

In 2021, a US executive order forced hospitals to publish all their insurance-negotiated rates in machine readable files. We think this data should be public, so we're crowdsourcing a single, fully open, MySQL-compatible database of it. You can tra...

Tim Sehn

April 19, 2023

Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database. How would you build a version controlled SQL database? This article will start with some of the high level requirements, explain some possible architecture options, and then explain the…...

Taylor Bantle

April 17, 2023

Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. Since we launched Hosted last year, we've been adding new features to offer a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful database and version control features....

Max Hoffman

April 14, 2023

Dolt is a SQL database with MySQL’s syntax and Git’s versioning semantics. Dolt is run as a service, and when things go wrong we prefer SQL errors to crashed servers. This was the basic premise behind Brian’s painstaking rewrite of Noms panics...

Tim Sehn

April 12, 2023

A customer was struggling with how to use standard ORM tools, like SQLAlchemy, to access Dolt time travel features across schema changes. One specific problem area is that combining app ORM/schema tools with Dolt time travel features has been...