- 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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- TECHNICAL15 min read
Multi-Source Replication From Dolt to MySQL
One of MySQL's greatest features is its robust replication support. MySQL replication provides scalability, reliability, and high availability benefits for MySQL-based systems and is extremely widely used in production deployments of MySQL. Here...
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An Ooey GUI Guide to Using Dolt
Dolt is inspired by Git and MySQL, two deeply command-line oriented software programs. Thus, Dolt started as a command line utility, matching almost all of Git's capabilities . We then added a MySQL-compatible server component so you could connec...
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Use Dolt With MySQL Connector in Python
Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database. It means you can commit, diff and merge along with other Git-like version control actions. You can use Dolt with most workbenches, ORMs and SQL connectors that are available on the Internet....
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Sleuthing resource leaks in Dolt
Recently, users running SQL queries against their databases hosted on DoltHub has led us to uncovering some really interesting bugs in Dolt itself. In today's post, I'll take you on a journey as I recount our investigation of these bugs, and ...
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Dolt Roadmap update
Introduction At DoltHub, we ship features, a lot. We fix bugs in 24 hours , but we also have a lot of long-term projects we're working on at any given time. We keep track of these goals on our roadmap , which just got its periodic update ...
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How to Publish a Microsoft Windows Application
We recently released the Dolt Workbench desktop application for both Mac and Windows . In our previous blog , we covered how to submit an Electron application to the Mac App store. Now, we will guide you through the process of publishing ...
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Anatomy of a Dolt Database
While writing about how to tune Dolt for large databases , it dawned on me that we don't have documentation on the internal file structure of a Dolt database. What does Dolt look like on the inside? Let's dissect a database and find out. ...
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A Useful Pattern for Nil Channel Values in Go
At DoltHub we're building Dolt , a SQL database that supports Git-like version control, including branch, merge, diff, clone, push, and pull. Dolt is written in Go. This post is part of a series of blog posts about programming in Go . I f...
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Automatic Statistics
DoltDB is the first relational database that supports Git-like version control primitives like branch , diff , and merge . All our versioning features exist alongside full MySQL compatibility and near MySQL latency parity . The latest re...
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Dolt Corruption Challenge
You want $1000? We want to give you $1000. A couple of weeks ago, we announced support of dolt fsck to allow our users to ensure that their Dolt database isn't corrupted. We're so confident in the data model that we're offering $1000 to...
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How to Publish a Mac Desktop App Outside the App Store
In our previous blog , we covered the process of submitting an Electron app to the Mac App Store (MAS) . While MAS offers an official way to distribute your application, we also wanted to give users the option to download the app directly from ...
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How to Make Dolt Work at Scale
One of the first questions we get from the "Dolt curious" is "How does it scale?". We have a number of customers that run Dolt at scale, including Flock Safety and Turbine . For this article, I wanted to highlight a large public database so yo...
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Enterprise Git - The Amazon Story
Dolt, the world's first SQL database supporting branching and merging, has a lot of similarities to Git. DoltHub currently has 15 people working on it , and a whopping 1/3 of us spent some amount of time in Amazon's Builder Tools organization....
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The Dolt Workbench Now Supports Doltgres
It's an eventful week for the Dolt Workbench . Yesterday we announced that the workbench is now available as a desktop application on both Mac and Windows . Today we're excited to announce that the Dolt Workbench now supports Doltgres ,...
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Dolt Workbench Electron App
We're excited to announce the release of the Dolt Workbench Desktop app , now available for download! Dolt Workbench is a modern, open-source SQL workbench built for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Dolt-compatible databases. This desktop version simpli...
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Dolt Use Cases
We're building Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. Dolt lets you branch and merge your database tables just like you do with your Git files. When we tell people we built this technology, we get one of two responses: ...
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Is MySQL Dying?
Here at DoltHub , like MariaDB and Oracle, we're in the MySQL business. We built a MySQL-compatible database, Dolt , that has all the version control features you know and love from Git. We made the decision to be MySQL-compatible back in 201...
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Using Dolt with JDBC
Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database – you can branch, merge, diff, fork, revert, rebase, and clone your relational data using the same version control model and syntax as Git. Dolt is open source and built from the ground up t...
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Reducing Yacc Latency by 80%
Dolt is the first relational database that supports Git-like versioning. Dolt's content-addressed storage layer plugs into two wire layers, MySQL and now Postgres ( DoltgreSQL ). While half of the team works on reaching 100% Postgres compatibil...
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Announcing `dolt fsck`
Dolt is the world's first SQL database which enables users to branch and merge . Today, we're adding support for dolt fsck , following in a long tradition of fsck to protect against data corruption that goes back more than 40 years! A ...
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