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We are excited to announce the release of the new DoltHub API, designed to make it easier to manage and collaborate on databases programmatically. The DoltHub API offers a range of features that can help strea…

Last week a complaint from a gopher about his coworkers bringing Java conventions to a Golang codebase made a minor splash on Reddit. Their complaints: All context.Context are currently being stored as f…

ChatGPT is all the rage. I asked ChatGPT if you could raise money if you haven't blogged about it and I did not agree with the response. Can't raise I may need to raise money again. So, here we go. I …

Dolt Binlog Replication Preview Today, we are excited to announce Dolt's support for replicating from a MySQL binlog! This initial support allows a Dolt sql-server to configure a MySQL or MariaDB instance a…

Hospital lab tests are commodities: a test is a test is a test. So how can end up with a $8,500 mole biopsy or a $28,000 strep throat cell culture? Many investigations raise this question but stop short of ans…

A couple weeks ago I wrote about how to use Dolt with Apache Superset. Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Superset charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Superset using the MySQL connector so…

Dolt is a version controlled MySQL-compatible database, written from the ground up in Go. We're always working to close the remaining gap on full compatibility with MySQL. In this blog post, we're talking abou…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. A lot of people, when they hear about this, say "that's really cool, but what …

Dolt started as a data sharing tool. Dolt is still a great data sharing tool as you can see from DoltHub Data Bounties where people around the world collaborate on building open databases. But as Dolt got m…

Dolt is the first fully version controlled relational database. Every Git command is exposed as a SQL function, allowing users to efficiently branch, diff, and merge tables. We recently added anti and sem…

Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. People have found many creative uses for Dolt, but there's one area that Dolt has yet …

Recently, I came across this Reddit post going over how they manage database versioning. I was particularly interested in this response Reddit Response To be fair it is really strong process for tracking…

A customer wanted to use Apache Superset to visualize Dolt databases. This customer runs DoltLab and intends to version hundreds of databases there. He wants a subset of those databases available to Superset f…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database that you can branch, merge, and diff. Dolt stores data in a prolly tree to efficiently support these operations, which can come with write overhead and use a lot of…

Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. Dolt uses Git semantics to branch and commit state checkpoints, and MySQL semantics to define, mutate, and access data. We've optimized a variety of perf…

Last June, I published a Getting Started: Version Controlled Database blog that quickly became Dolt's GitHub README. As I say in that blog: Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data". Dolt's origin…

Imagine, for a moment, that both code and data were not constrained to the present. With a "standard" database, your data lives only in the present. Sure, with backups you're able to recall the past, but to …

On its face, it's hundreds of terabytes, millions of files, and trillions of negotiated rates between insurers and providers. But the health insurance data dump is probably smaller than it seems. Back in Ju…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. We spent the first part of 2022 working on our performance, in large part by re-writing the storage engine. In October, we were lucky e…

Beta release of ACID transactions in Dolt