Round number alert! Dolt just crossed 20,000 stars on GitHub.

We hit 20,000 around 3pm PST on February 23, 2026. Thanks to all of you have taken the time to throw Dolt a star.

What is Dolt?#

Dolt is the world’s first and only version controlled SQL database. Think Git and MySQL had a baby. Dolt is built entirely in Golang from the storage engine up on a novel data structure called a Prolly Tree. Prolly Trees enable all the Git-style version control at database scale and performance.

Star History#

There’s a cool website called star-history.com that renders your GitHub star history as a time series in a distinct, comic-style format. See Dolt’s below.

Dolt was launched on August 6, 2019. GitHub stars were a slow burn until March 2021. A viral HackerNews post drove a GitHub-recommended cycle that took our stars from about 2,500 to 8,000 in about a week. A similar HackerNews post drove the spike in June 2022. Since then, Dolt has steadily accumulated about 2,000 stars per year.

Currently, Dolt is in the midst of a protracted star spike which pushed us across 20,000 ahead of schedule. Dolt was adopted by Beads, a popular agentic memory tool with 17,000 GitHub stars of its own. The merging of the two communities seems to be the cause of the recent star acceleration.

Thank You!#

We’ve been building Dolt for a long time. As with any startup company or open-source project, there’s been some ups and downs. During the downs, GitHub stars have always carried us. Thank you to you all for showing your interest in what we built. We’re excited to keep building on this momentum. 100,000 stars, here we come.

And if you haven’t done so yet, throw us a star!