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. 16 min read

    Dolt for Game Development

    Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database which gives you the power of relational databases, with the safety and ease of use of a Git-like versioning system. When we began working on Dolt five years ago we believed that a versioned database wo...

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  2. GOLANGINTEGRATION
    13 min read

    Getting Started With GORM And Dolt

    We're on a mission to show that Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database , works with all your favorite tools in all your favorite languages . Today, we stay in Dolt's native tongue Golang to show off how Dolt works GORM ...

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  3. GOLANG
    9 min read

    Testing Golang Code with Toxiproxy

    Here at DoltHub, we use Golang to build Dolt DB , the world's first version-controlled, SQL relational database – it gives you the power and expressiveness of a SQL relational database, combined with all the versioning features you love from Git…...

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  4. USE CASE
    8 min read

    Announcing Dolt Plugin for Unreal Editor

    tl;dr: We're releasing an Unreal Plugin that leverages Dolt in order to merge conflicting changes to Unreal Data Tables. You can download it here . Here at Dolthub, we're not just making the first SQL database with git-like version contro...

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  5. TECHNICALGOLANG
    16 min read

    Writing a Postgres Logical Replication System in Golang

    Introduction We're building Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. Dolt is MySQL compatible, but many of our prospective customers wanted a Postgres-compatible version instead, so we have been hard at work building Dolt...

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  6. USE CASE
    5 min read

    Dolt + Flock Safety: Versioned Feature Store

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database . How would you use such a thing? Are you building novel machine learning models using structured data? Are you worried about model reproducibility? Are you worried about model explainability? Are da...

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  7. SQL
    7 min read

    TPC-C Update 2024

    Dolt reached production quality as a relational database about a year ago. We started more seriously testing Dolt against TPC-C beforehand in anticipation of more contentious transactional workloads. Dolt aims to be around 2-3x compared to MySQL on...

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  8. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt's Commit Graph

    Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database . How would you build such a thing? Dolt's unique storage engine implements a Git-style commit graph of Prolly Trees . This blog explains the Dolt commit graph in detail and how ...

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  9. REFERENCE
    11 min read

    Prolly Trees

    "Prolly Tree" is short for "Probabilistic B-tree" . "Prolly Tree" was coined by the good folks who built Noms , who as far as we can tell invented the data structure. We here at DoltHub have immense respect for their pioneering work, without...

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  10. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt's Storage Engine

    Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database . How would you build such a thing? A few months ago, I wrote an article outlining the motivations, requirements, and choices that led to Dolt's Architecture . Today, in the next...

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  11. INTEGRATION
    21 min read

    ASP.NET Core + Dolt

    DoltDB is the world's first fully-versioned relational database . You can branch, merge, diff, push, and pull your relational data in the same ways that Git allows you to work with source code files. If you're curious what sorts of use cases th...

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  12. SQL
    5 min read

    100% Correctness

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like versioning features intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. In order to be a drop-in replacement, Dolt needs to match MySQL behavior as closely as possible. We chose sqllogictests , a collection of ...

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  13. GOLANG
    2 min read

    Adding Color to Terminal Output in Go

    When working with command-line applications in Go, color can be a great way to enhance the user experience, convey information in a more visually appealing way, or generally communicate more effectively. In this article, I'll show you some easy way...

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  14. FEATURE RELEASE
    10 min read

    Shallow Clone Support

    Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database, and the natural consequence of that is it needs to store every value of every row that has ever existed in your database. Git is similar, and it turns out that st...

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  15. 2 min read

    Announcing Dolt PGO Builds

    In a recent blog post Zach demonstrated that building Dolt using Golang's Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) improved benchmarking performance by 5%. Today we're excited to announce that Dolt releases, starting with v1.32.4 , are now buil...

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  16. SQL
    5 min read

    Automatic Statistic Updates

    Dolt is close to 100% MySQL compatible and only 2x slower than MySQL. Few customers find bugs that we cannot fix in under 24 hours, and the difference between a 10ms query in Dolt that is 5ms in MySQL is usually OK. But on rare occasions we still…

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  17. TECHNICAL
    8 min read

    Adding Types to DoltgreSQL

    In November 2023 , we officially started development on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. For those that may not know, Dolt is the world's first database that is built, from the grou...

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  18. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Upgrading Instances on Hosted Dolt

    Hosted Dolt is for running online, production Dolt databases. Last year we added support for read replicas . You can choose up to 8 read replicas and every write to the primary server is replicated to the read replicas. Since then, we've inc...

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  19. REFERENCE
    18 min read

    Getting Started: Rails and Dolt

    We're on a mission to show that Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database , works with all your favorite tools in all your favorite languages . Today we head to Ruby -land and show you how to integrate Dolt with Rails , a p...

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  20. 8 min read

    Understanding Tags in Go

    In Go, tags allow developers to attach metadata to struct fields. These tags can drive features and behaviors in various libraries and tools which access the tags via reflection. This article provides an overview of tags in Go, including their synt...

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