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A deep dive into the Dolt commit graph, the data structure that powers the version control capability of Dolt.

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.

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, …

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 …

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

Shallow Clones allow users to clone just the history they need

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, start…

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 usu…

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 …

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.

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

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 over…

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 browse…

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

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

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 thing…

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

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 re…

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 recentl…