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. GOLANG
    7 min read

    Running your Go tests in Github Continuous Integration

    We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As a database, we have to write tests. Lots and lots of tests. In fact, tests are a majority of the code we write. ...

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  2. SQL
    4 min read

    Thousands of Branch Stats

    DoltDB is the first version-controlled relational database that scales to thousands of concurrent branches. We spent the last year building a subsystem of table statistics to improve query performance, but so far that system only supports a h...

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  3. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Moving documentation in-product with the dolt_help table

    Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. As the only product in its category, there's a lot for our customers to learn to make the most of Dolt's features, so we prioritize writing good docs (and these blogs). Dolt's…

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  4. WORKBENCH
    4 min read

    Building a Custom Title Bar in Electron

    When building desktop applications with Electron, the default title bar is functional but often limiting. It takes up valuable space and doesn't always blend well with custom app designs. More importantly, it lacks flexibility—you can’t add…

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  5. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Importing MySQL Dumps

    The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...

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  6. DOLTGRESHOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Hosted Dolt now supports DoltgreSQL databases

    Here at DoltHub we've been hard at work getting Doltgres ready for Beta this quarter. Part of this release includes a hosted version of Doltgres, and we're excited to announce that Doltgres databases are now available on Hosted Dolt ! ...

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  7. REFERENCE
    14 min read

    Getting Started: Dolt Vectors

    In databases, the new hot hotness is vector indexes. Here at DoltHub , we're not immune to the hype. We released support for vector indexes a couple weeks ago. But what are vectors and vector indexes? Why put them in databases? Before I wro...

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  8. RELEASE
    4 min read

    Dolt sql-server removes user and password arguments

    In the Dolt 1.49.0 release , we removed the ability to specify a username and an optional password when starting a sql-server. These arguments were originally the only way to control the user who could log into a running Dolt sql-server. A few...

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  9. DOLTLAB
    4 min read

    Fixing your Doltlab instance with db-shell

    There's lots of ways to use Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database : You can run Dolt locally and manage your DB with our Git-like command line interface. You can run Dolt as a drop-in replacement for your MySQL serve...

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  10. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Clone

    One of the coolest things about Dolt is DoltHub . DoltHub is the place on the internet to find, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. If you find a cool database on DoltHub you want to play with, a good option is to copy it, or clone it in...

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  11. GOLANG
    11 min read

    JSON Showdown: Dolt vs MongoDB

    This is the fourth in a series of tests putting Dolt head-to-head against other database engines to see how they handle large JSON documents, comparing their design, performance, and implementation choices. Up until now, we've only been compa...

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  12. DOLTHUBREFERENCE
    13 min read

    Dolt CI Schema Details

    Near the end of 2024 we announced the release of continuous integration (CI) testing on DoltHub . This feature allows you to run automated tests against your DoltHub databases, just like you do for your GitHub repositories. If you'd like to tr...

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  13. DATASET
    6 min read

    The State of Hospital Price Transparency Data

    DoltHub has been cranking away in the version controlled database space for six and a half years now. Those of you that have been following us since the beginning know that Dolt and DoltHub started as a data sharing tool . In service of t...

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  14. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Improving Dolt's getting-started experience with config templating

    Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. But it didn't start its life as a version-controlled database. It started as a command line tool for sharing datasets . And that history has shaped how you install and get star...

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  15. GOLANGINTEGRATION
    12 min read

    Using sqlx in Go to Query Dolt

    DoltDB is an open-source SQL database that also includes all the features of Git – Git gives you distributed version control for files, Dolt gives you distributed version control for relational tables. For example, you can create a branch of a…

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  16. REFERENCE
    6 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Basics

    Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. What does that mean in practice? We've been building Dolt for over six years now. We've been writing three blog articles a week for five years and five blog articles a week for almost a year. As we've produ...

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  17. 4 min read

    Fetching Tags: Faster than Ever!

    Dolt, the world's first SQL database which supports branching and merging , is an open source product built by a startup. As with all startups, we need to move fast and get features into the hands of our users as quickly as possible. Occasionally...

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  18. SQL
    4 min read

    Mind The convT

    We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first version-controlled SQL database. This blog discusses how we sped up our table scans by 24% by avoiding interfaces at critical junctions. Interfaces Are Handy They modularize code along lines ...

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  19. SQLFEATURE RELEASE
    6 min read

    Announcing Vector Indexes

    Back in September, we announced that we were looking at adding support for Vectors and Vector Indexes to Dolt . It seems like every SQL database these days is going all in on vectors, and here at DoltHub we wanted to not just jump on that band...

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  20. RELEASEREFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt Root Superuser Changes

    Version 1.46.0 of Dolt makes two important changes to improve the default root superuser. This default superuser is now persisted to disk, just like any other user account, and it is also now restricted to localhost by default. These changes f...

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