1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    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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  1. WEB
    3 min read

    How to Publish a Mac Desktop App Outisde the App Store

    In our previous blog , we covered the process of submitting an Electron app to the Mac App Store (MAS) . While MAS offers an official way to distribute your application, we also wanted to give users the option to download the app directly from ...

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  2. REFERENCE
    6 min read

    How to Make Dolt Work at Scale

    One of the first questions we get from the "Dolt curious" is "How does it scale?". We have a number of customers that run Dolt at scale, including Flock Safety and Turbine . For this article, I wanted to highlight a large public database so yo...

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  3. 11 min read

    Enterprise Git - The Amazon Story

    Dolt, the world's first SQL database supporting branching and merging, has a lot of similarities to Git. DoltHub currently has 15 people working on it , and a whopping 1/3 of us spent some amount of time in Amazon's Builder Tools organization....

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  4. FEATURE RELEASEWEBDOLTGRES
    2 min read

    The Dolt Workbench Now Supports Doltgres

    It's an eventful week for the Dolt Workbench . Yesterday we announced that the workbench is now available as a desktop application on both Mac and Windows . Today we're excited to announce that the Dolt Workbench now supports Doltgres ,...

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  5. WEB
    1 min read

    Dolt Workbench Electron App

    We're excited to announce the release of the Dolt Workbench Desktop app , now available for download! Dolt Workbench is a modern, open-source SQL workbench built for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Dolt-compatible databases. This desktop version simpli...

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  6. REFERENCEUSE CASE
    9 min read

    Dolt Use Cases

    We're building Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. Dolt lets you branch and merge your database tables just like you do with your Git files. When we tell people we built this technology, we get one of two responses: ...

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  7. DOLTGRES
    4 min read

    Is MySQL Dying?

    Here at DoltHub , like MariaDB and Oracle, we're in the MySQL business. We built a MySQL-compatible database, Dolt , that has all the version control features you know and love from Git. We made the decision to be MySQL-compatible back in 201...

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  8. INTEGRATION
    10 min read

    Using Dolt with JDBC

    Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database – you can branch, merge, diff, fork, revert, rebase, and clone your relational data using the same version control model and syntax as Git. Dolt is open source and built from the ground up t...

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  9. SQL
    5 min read

    Reducing Yacc Latency by 80%

    Dolt is the first relational database that supports Git-like versioning. Dolt's content-addressed storage layer plugs into two wire layers, MySQL and now Postgres ( DoltgreSQL ). While half of the team works on reaching 100% Postgres compatibil...

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  10. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Announcing `dolt fsck`

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database which enables users to branch and merge . Today, we're adding support for dolt fsck , following in a long tradition of fsck to protect against data corruption that goes back more than 40 years! A ...

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  11. TECHNICAL
    12 min read

    How we can Build a Vector Index from Prolly Trees

    Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database, built on Prolly Trees. Prolly Trees are the novel data structure that power's Dolt's unique storage layer, making it possible to manage multiple branches in a space-efficient way. Here at Dolthub, ...

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  12. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    Dolt for SOX Compliance

    In 2017 Snap Inc went public which meant that there was a rush to become Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliant. At that time I was the lead developer on the ad delivery team which was directly responsible for one of Snap's revenue streams. As a result I…...

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  13. GOLANG
    5 min read

    Reflecting on Go Reflection

    Dolt is a database with branching and merging written in Go, and this post is one our many Go related blog posts Despite my 20 plus years of writing code for a living, I've never been a programming languag...

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  14. DOLTLAB
    10 min read

    How to run DoltLab without egress

    DoltLab is the self-hosted version of DoltHub , a web-based remote for your Dolt databases. In recent weeks, we had a DoltLab customers reach out to us looking to run their DoltLab instances from within a closed, internal network where eg...

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  15. WEB
    7 min read

    How to Submit an Electron App to the Mac App Store

    We are excited to be nearing the release of the Dolt Workbench desktop application! If you're curious about how we built our desktop app, check out our previous blogs about building an Electron app and adding custom menus . When distribu...

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  16. USE CASE
    7 min read

    How to Restore a Dropped Database

    Dolt is the world's first version-controlled relational database. It gives you all the power of Git to branch , fork , merge , diff , and even rebase your relational data. When you use Dolt, you have confidence that your data is safe – e...

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  17. SQL
    2 min read

    Correctness Update

    Welcome back to another installment of Dolt's monthly correctness updates! If you missed it, here's last month's update . We've been receiving fewer customer issues lately, so there was a focus on adding more features and expanding on existing…

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  18. USE CASE
    6 min read

    Dolt + post-no-preference: Open Data

    We built Dolt and DoltHub for data sharing. These products were our answer to the question, "Why is there no place on the internet to get access to interesting, maintained data?" A few other people answered the question at about the same ti...

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  19. 3 min read

    The Plan for Vectors in Dolt

    Lately, I keep hearing about vector databases. Even databases that weren't originally made for vectors are getting vector capabilities added via plugins: MariaDB Vector , announced in July, is in preview. Sqlite has sqlite-vec , which o...

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  20. WEB
    3 min read

    How to Create Custom Desktop Menus in Electron

    Here at DoltHub , we've been working hard turning our Dolt Workbench web application into a desktop app using Electron. In my previous blog , I talked about how to build an Electron app with Next.js. There may be situations where you need to...

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