Brian Hendriks

February 27, 2023

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB , a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful databa...

Liu Liu

February 24, 2023

We are excited to announce the release of the new DoltHub API, designed to make it easier to manage and collaborate on databases programmatically. The DoltHub API offers a range of features that can help streamline your work and improve produ...

Zach Musgrave

February 22, 2023

Last week a complaint from a gopher about his coworkers bringing Java conventions to a Golang codebase made a minor splash on Reddit. Their complaints: All context.Context are currently being stored as fields in structs. All sync.Wai...

Tim Sehn

February 20, 2023

ChatGPT is all the rage. I asked ChatGPT if you could raise money if you haven't blogged about it and I did not agree with the response. I may need to raise money again. So, here we go. I was inspired by ...

Jason Fulghum

February 17, 2023

Dolt Binlog Replication Preview Today, we are excited to announce Dolt's support for replicating from a MySQL binlog ! This initial support allows a Dolt sql-server to configure a MySQL or MariaDB instance as its replication source, connect...

Alec Stein

February 15, 2023

Hospital lab tests are commodities: a test is a test is a test. So how can end up with a $8,500 mole biopsy or a $28,000 strep throat cell culture ? Many investigations raise this question but stop short of answering it. We dug into this qu...

Tim Sehn

February 13, 2023

A couple weeks ago I wrote about how to use Dolt with Apache Superset . Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Superset charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Superset using the MySQL connector so it's really easy to get start...

Jennifer Purevsuren

February 10, 2023

Dolt is a version controlled MySQL-compatible database, written from the ground up in Go. We're always working to close the remaining gap on full compatibility with MySQL. In this blog post, we're talking about the work we've done to make Dolt…

Zach Musgrave

February 8, 2023

Dolt is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. A lot of people, when they hear about this, say "that's really cool, but what would I do with it?" The answer of cours...

Tim Sehn

February 6, 2023

Dolt started as a data sharing tool . Dolt is still a great data sharing tool as you can see from DoltHub Data Bounties where people around the world collaborate on building open databases . But as Dolt got more popular, people wanted t...

Max Hoffman

February 3, 2023

Dolt is the first fully version controlled relational database . Every Git command is exposed as a SQL function, allowing users to efficiently branch, diff, and merge tables. We recently added anti and semi join support. ANTI_JOIN and SEMI_J...

Daylon Wilkins

February 1, 2023

Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt , which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. People have found many creative uses for Dolt , but there's one area that Dolt has yet to step foot in: the library...

Brian Fitzgerald

January 30, 2023

Recently, I came across this Reddit post going over how they manage database versioning . I was particularly interested in this response To be fair it is really strong process for tracking and recording database c...

Tim Sehn

January 27, 2023

A customer wanted to use Apache Superset to visualize Dolt databases. This customer runs DoltLab and intends to version hundreds of databases there. He wants a subset of those databases available to Superset for visualization. Dolt prov...

Taylor Bantle

January 25, 2023

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database that you can branch, merge, and diff. Dolt stores data in a prolly tree to efficiently support these operations, which can come with write overhead and use a lot of storage. You can reduce the am...

Max Hoffman

January 23, 2023

Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. Dolt uses Git semantics to branch and commit state checkpoints, and MySQL semantics to define, mutate, and access data. We've optimized a variety of performance benchmarks over the last year: ...

Tim Sehn

January 19, 2023

Last June, I published a Getting Started: Version Controlled Database blog that quickly became Dolt's GitHub README . As I say in that blog: Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data" . Dolt's original focus was implementing G...

Daylon Wilkins

January 18, 2023

Imagine, for a moment, that both code and data were not constrained to the present. With a "standard" database, your data lives only in the present. Sure, with backups you're able to recall the past, but to do so means to fully immerse yourself in…...

Alec Stein

January 11, 2023

On its face, it's hundreds of terabytes, millions of files, and trillions of negotiated rates between insurers and providers. But the health insurance data dump is probably smaller than it seems. Back in July, health insurers published all their...

Zach Musgrave

January 9, 2023

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. We spent the first part of 2022 working on our performance, in large part by re-writing the storage engine. In October, we were lucky enough to be invited to speak about this ...