Brian Fitzgerald

May 13, 2022

Dolt is the database for dummies Our CEO, Tim Sehn, recently wrote a blog about why Dolt is the database for dummies. In this video, we show off the features that make working with a Dolt database foolproof. You get copy/paste, undo, and track chang...

Tim Sehn

May 11, 2022

Why name a product Dolt? We get asked all the time. It's named dolt to pay homage to how Linus Torvalds named git: Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm an egotistical bas...

Dustin Brown

May 9, 2022

Hello DoltLabbers! Today's blog will be a quick-start guide, showing you how to monitor your DoltLab instance with Prometheus. We recently released DoltLab v0.4.2 that adds support for DoltLab users requiring implicit TLS connections to their SMTP s...

Alec Stein

May 6, 2022

One of the most expensive hospitals in America may actually be a nonprofit. Insurers pay the hospital, Mary Lanning Healthcare in Nebraska, an average of $200,000 for a particular neurosurgery. However, drive less than hour West to Kearney Regional M...

Taylor Bantle

May 4, 2022

Learn how we migrated our Google Sign-In button to the new Google Platform Library.

Dustin Brown

May 2, 2022

Today's blog is a quick how-to guide aimed at helping others provision and actually use more than 2TBs of disk on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04. I never planned on writing this blog, but experiencing the surprisingly clunky and cryptic process compelled m...

Zach Musgrave

April 29, 2022

Introduction Dolt is git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull just like a git repository. It's like Git and MySQL had a baby. Being natively version controlled means Dolt can do things...

Daylon Wilkins

April 29, 2022

In my last blog post, I went over how we initially implemented foreign keys on our database—Dolt, which fuses a fully MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities—and how our first decision resulted in a complete rewrite of foreig...

Tim Sehn

April 27, 2022

A survey of data version control tools for Git-like version control of files, data pipeline version control, versioned data lakes, and version controlled databases. Dolt is a version controlled database.

Dhruv Sringari

April 25, 2022

Everyone has that favorite route that they use to drive to work. You’ve driven the route over and over and learn to trust and rely on it over time. You know exactly how long your drive is going to take and when you need to leave the house. So you lea...

Alec Stein

April 22, 2022

US Hospital Price Transparency Bounty Retrospective A year ago we launched DoltHub data bounties. If you're unfamiliar, we use Dolt to create open databases that don't exist anywhere else on the internet. We use Dolt's data lineage capability to fig...

Max Hoffman

April 20, 2022

Last year we announced prepared statement support, a simple form of query parameterization. True prepared statements save plans to be executed later, often multiple times. But the original work only progressed as far as satisfying the handler API. Th...

Alec Stein

April 19, 2022

What are data bounties? DoltHub data bounties are our way of getting people to use Dolt: in each bounty, we build meaningful datasets together using Git-style pull requests. If you haven't participated in a bounty already, why not start now? We pay ...

Daylon Wilkins

April 15, 2022

When building a database, there are many decisions to be made regarding its implementation. Our database is Dolt, which is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We're modeling our SQL implementation on MySQL, so much so that we're a drop-in repla...

Zach Musgrave

April 14, 2022

A couple weeks ago, somebody at Atlassian had a really bad day. Seems like they didn't realize it at the time, but their customers noticed pretty quickly. Atlassian makes a bunch of software engineering tools that are used by a huge number of softwa...

Alec Stein

April 13, 2022

I'm currently staring at what I think might be the biggest open database of housing sales records ever. It's 50GB of uncut housing sales records straight from the government coffers. Tens of millions of them. Good chance to dig around and play with a...

Jason Fulghum

April 11, 2022

Welcome back to the second post in this blog series exploring the magic that makes Dolt so unique and powerful. Dolt DB is a MySQL-compliant SQL database that also provides the distributed versioning features of Git. The result is a powerful database...

Liu Liu

April 8, 2022

For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Recently we received a feature request from one of our customers asking us to support ...

Max Hoffman

April 6, 2022

Today we're going to discuss a series of schema bugs discovered in our version-controlled database, Dolt. It manifested in three related ways, from the display layer, into the storage layer, and finally the execution engine. We will unravel the puzzl...

Brian Fitzgerald

April 5, 2022

What Makes Dolt Easy? We think one of the big advantages of Dolt is that it can be downloaded and running on your machine in under a minute. Maybe a little bit longer when you set up your DoltHub login so you can push or pull from DoltHub. This mean...