Tim Sehn

February 29, 2024

A detailed deep dive into Dolt's storage engine. Dolt's storage engine provides database version control at scale using Prolly Tress and a commit graph.

Jason Fulghum

February 28, 2024

This post shows how to build an ASP.NET Core web application using Razor Pages and Entity Framework Core with Dolt as the database, including how to access Dolt specific versioning features such as branching, commit logs, and data diffs.

James Cor

February 26, 2024

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like versioning features intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. In order to be a drop-in replacement, Dolt needs to match MySQL behavior as closely as possible. We chose sqllogictests, a collection of around ...

Stephanie You

February 23, 2024

Learn how to add color to your terminal output in Go.

Neil Macneale

February 21, 2024

Shallow Clones allow users to clone just the history they need

Dustin Brown

February 19, 2024

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 built using PGO! ...

Max Hoffman

February 16, 2024

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 hav...

Daylon Wilkins

February 14, 2024

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 ground up, with ve...

Taylor Bantle

February 12, 2024

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.

Tim Sehn

February 9, 2024

A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Rails app using a Dolt database.

Brian Hendriks

February 7, 2024

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 syntax...

Dustin Brown

February 5, 2024

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 can run i...

Zach Musgrave

February 2, 2024

In this blog we try out Go's new profile-guided build optimizations on Dolt's SQL benchmarks and share the results

Tim Sehn

January 31, 2024

A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Django app using a Dolt database.

James Cor

January 29, 2024

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_TIMESTAMP()...

Zach Musgrave

January 26, 2024

In this tutorial, learn how to define views in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples

Tim Sehn

January 24, 2024

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. This blog will...

Max Hoffman

January 22, 2024

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 SQL engi...

Aaron Son

January 19, 2024

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.

Zach Musgrave

January 17, 2024

In this tutorial, learn how to define stored procedures in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples