- REFERENCE9 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…
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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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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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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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Upgrading Instances on Hosted Dolt
Hosted Dolt now supports more advanced replication workflows from the web UI, such as resizing your deployment, upgrading to a larger instance, and restarting a stopped deployment.
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Getting Started: Rails and Dolt
A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Rails app using a Dolt database.
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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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Testcontainers for Go with Dolt
Recently, a customer reached out to our team asking for a blog using Dolt with Testcontainers , "an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that c...
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Testing out Profile-Guided Optimization on Dolt's SQL Benchmarks
In this blog we try out Go's new profile-guided build optimizations on Dolt's SQL benchmarks and share the results
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Getting Started: Django and Dolt
A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Django app using a Dolt database.
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Improvements to SQL Function Support
Dolt is a versioned database that has a mix of Git and MySQL features. One of our goals is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. As a result, we need to support all the functions MySQL does; these are things like SIN() , CONCAT() , CURRENT_T...
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MySQL Views: How and why with examples
In this tutorial, learn how to define views in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples
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Dolt + Metabase
A customer wanted to use Metabase to visualize Dolt databases. Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Metabase charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Metabase using the MySQL connector so it's really easy to get started. T...
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Join Statistics
Dolt is the first relational database with history independent version control. Dolt's Git-like commit graph captures snapshots in a format that efficiently diffs and merges tables and schemas. We recently added index scan costing to Dolt's S...
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Structural Sharing with Schema Changes
Two versions of a table with different schema can sometimes share storage in Dolt. Learn about when a schema change causes a full rewrite of the table data and when it can incrementally share storage with past version of the table data.
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MySQL Stored Procedures: How and why with examples
In this tutorial, learn how to define stored procedures in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples
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Announcing automatic merging of JSON changes
The flexibility of JSON is useful even within SQL databases. Dolt now makes merging concurrent changes to JSON documents easy.
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Coming Soon: Golang 1.22 🚀
Go 1.22 is expected to be released next month; in this blog post, we dig into the latest release candidate and explore what's new
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Writing a version-controlled application
How to write a version-controlled application using DoltDB
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Getting Started: Laravel and Dolt
We're on a mission to show that Dolt works with all your favorite tools in all your favorite languages . Today we head to PHP -land and show you how to integrate Dolt with Laravel , a popular website builder with a built in ORM. ...
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