- REFERENCE11 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 versi...
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- REFERENCEUSE CASEGOLANG9 min read
C to WASM to Go
Sometimes, the most complicated solution may end up being the simplest. This sounds like a contradiction, but it depends on where a project's priorities lay. I'm an engineer here at DoltHub, and about 9 months ago I implemented collation support for...
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Using DoltHub as a Remote for Hosted Dolt
We have two web products for Dolt: DoltHub and Hosted Dolt. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt and Hosted is AWS RDS for Dolt. Each product has different use cases depending on your goals, but there are also reasons to use DoltHub and Hosted together. Easily...
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Your config file should be a database
Struggling with a crippling addiction to YAML? You aren't alone. We can help.
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DoltHub on Hosted Dolt
For the past few months at DoltHub, we've been really excited about the release of Dolt 1.0. If you missed it, it dropped last Friday May 5th. Dolt 1.0 is the first stable release of Dolt and guarantees forward storage compatibility, production grad...
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Making Nautobot work with Dolt, again
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that allows branching, diffing, and merging database changes. In this blog post, we will discuss how Dolt is being used with a network automation solution called Nautobot and the recent fixes we've had to make at D...
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Getting Started: Hosted Dolt
There are a bunch of ways to get started with Dolt, the word's first and only version controlled database. You can run Dolt locally as a version controlled database or as Git for Data. You can start using Dolt by sharing data on DoltHub or participa...
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Using dolt_ignore to Prevent Accidents
An introduction to using the dolt_ignore configuration table to prevent staging tables that ought not to be staged.
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Three-Way Merges in Dolt: Modeling Schema Conflicts
Initial release of the dolt_schema_conflicts table.
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Connecting to a Database With Branches
Considerations, and recommendations for connecting to a database with branches
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Rename our Database
Rename our database! MulletDB? DataRebase? OurSQL? MarxDB? Choose your fighter.
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Why a database of hospital prices doesn't exist yet
In 2021, a US executive order forced hospitals to publish all their insurance-negotiated rates in machine readable files. We think this data should be public, so we're crowdsourcing a single, fully open, MySQL-compatible database of it. You can track...
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Dolt Architecture Introduction
Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database. How would you build a version controlled SQL database? This article will start with some of the high level requirements, explain some possible architecture options, and then explain the actu...
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Cloning a Hosted Database
Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. Since we launched Hosted last year, we've been adding new features to offer a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful database and version control features. Our la...
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Keep Calm And Panic
Dolt is a SQL database with MySQL’s syntax and Git’s versioning semantics. Dolt is run as a service, and when things go wrong we prefer SQL errors to crashed servers. This was the basic premise behind Brian’s painstaking rewrite of Noms panics a few...
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Using SQLAlchemy for Dolt Time Travel
A customer was struggling with how to use standard ORM tools, like SQLAlchemy, to access Dolt time travel features across schema changes. One specific problem area is that combining app ORM/schema tools with Dolt time travel features has been very p...
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Accessing Dolt Data with the Postgres mysql_fdw
Dolt is a full featured SQL database which supports Git-like version control features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. It's wire protocol and supported SQL dialect are based on MySQL. Here at DoltHub, it's not uncommon for our u...
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Introducing dolt_column_diff
Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. One of the features that leverages the powerful versioned history Dolt tracks is our Database History Sy...
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Adding a GPT assistant to the Dolt CLI
Tips and tricks for getting ChatGPT assistance integrated into your favorite command line tool
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