- REFERENCE11 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
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 versi...
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- DOLTLAB4 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 server. You can use D...
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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 Git lin...
Read More - GOLANG12 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 comparing Do...
Read More - DOLTHUBREFERENCE10 min read
Dolt CI Schema Details
A look at the internal tables used to store CI configuration in Dolt.
Read More - DATASET7 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 this use case,...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASE4 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 started wit...
Read More - GOLANGINTEGRATION13 min read
Using sqlx in Go to Query Dolt
Dolt is easy to query from Go apps. In this post, we show how to use the low-level database/sql package and the third-party sqlx library to query a Dolt sql-server.
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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 produced ...
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Fetching Tags: Faster than Ever!
Fetching a lot of redundant tags should be fast - Now it is!
Read More - SQLPERFORMANCE5 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 of common...
Read More - SQLFEATURE RELEASEAI7 min read
Announcing Vector Indexes
Dolt now allows tables to index vector columns in order to optimize Approximate Nearest Neighbor searches.
Read More - RELEASEREFERENCE5 min read
Dolt Root Superuser Changes
The Dolt root superuser is now persisted to disk and restricted to localhost by default
Read More - DOLTLABFEATURE RELEASE4 min read
Announcing DoltLab Enterprise Offline mode
DoltLab Enterprise can now run in offline mode! Read more to learn how you can get started with offline Enterprise today.
Read More - WORKBENCHFEATURE RELEASE3 min read
Fetching and Syncing Remotes Using the Dolt Workbench
Learn how to synchronize your branches with remotes using the new fetch and sync features in the Dolt Workbench.
Read More - USE CASE11 min read
Using Rebase to Tidy up Dolt Commit History
Using Dolt's rebasing support can help you keep your development branches tidy, as demonstrated with a video game configuration example
Read More - GOLANG5 min read
DebugString(): a handy pseudo-standard for Go libraries
We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. dolt loves go As a database program, Dolt has to deal with lots of large data objects. Oftentimes, these large objects are deeply nested, with structs contain...
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Dolt MySQL Differences
Here at DoltHub, we tell users "Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL". We're also quick to remind users that "There is no MySQL code in Dolt". Dolt is built from the storage engine up to be MySQL-compatible but also offer Git-style version control...
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Dolt Wrapped 2024: A Year in Review
Spotify Wrapped popularized a version of the "year in review" format. Now everything is "wrapped". Why can't Dolt be wrapped too? Turns out, Dolt can be wrapped! We're ripping off Spotify's gimmick (but not personalizing it) for Dolt's Year in Revie...
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Dolphie Works with Dolt
A demonstration, complete with sample code, on how to use Dolphie with Dolt, the world's first version controlled SQL database.
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10% Slower Than MySQL
Four years ago DoltDB was about 15x slower than MySQL. At the time, we faced skepticism regarding Prolly-tree performance and scalability. Last year, the first production-grade DoltDB aspired to ~2x read latency compared to MySQL. This meant that a M...
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