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We're building Dolt, the world's first SQL database with Git-like version control. Recently, a customer contacted us to let us know that test symbols were making it into their binary when they took a depen…

Explains how Dolt uses a memo data structure to optimize join plans.

Explains soft deletes in databases: what they are, why and how to use them. Introduces a new version controlled database concept where every delete is a soft delete.

If you're like me you've spent a lot of the last two months thinking about how to parse huge JSON files. That's because some of the most valuable data in the world of healthcare is buried in them. These fil…

DoltHub is the central repository for Dolt's version-controlled databases. We like to call it the Github of databases. It lets you query, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Last month, we brought D…

In early October we released DoltHub Jobs, our latest backend change to DoltHub that lets DoltHub handle large, long-running write operations like file import and pull-request merge. We also recently released …

DoltHub is building a database of hospitals and their chargemasters for Payless.Health. A complete list of URLs will help them build out their comprehensive search engine of hospital prices, spanning all 7,000…

Dolt is a version controlled relational database. It is a combination of Git and MySQL. We've received requests for an official Dolt Docker image from many customers who want to run Dolt in a container. We g…

Dolt is a database like no other. Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database. In Dolt both your data and schema are managed with a Git-like commit graph which allows you to do things that you can…

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git's distributed versioning features. It's the first relational database that versions your data changes AND your schema changes. Dolt allows you to branch and merge, …

Introducing standby replication for sql-server. Writes to a primary are replicated directly to standby servers, which can be easily promoted to primary to start accepting writes.

A survey of multiplayer databases. Explains what multiplayer software is and how to apply the concept to databases. List of multiplayer database options.

Dolt DB is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. We built Dolt's storage engine from the ground up to make these operatio…

This article is equal parts data repository, code repository, and notebook. The linked GitHub repo gives you the tools you need to reproduce this analysis or create your own. Last month I wrote about ho…

Dolt DB is the world's first fully versioned SQL database. It combines the distributed versioning features of Git with the power and expressiveness of a relational database. In the same way the Git CLI allo…

Today we're excited to make two announcements, one for each of our web based platforms, DoltHub and DoltLab. For DoltHub, "Jobs", our term for long running asynchronous work, are now supported. Jobs can be …

ER diagram example For those of you that are new, Dolt is a database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share and collaborate on Dolt databases. Recently, we released …

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. For the last year, we've been rewriting our storage engine to improve Dolt'…

When should you commit? It's a question as old as time, dating back to the original init commit. Proposal But when should you make a Dolt commit? That's a much lighter weight decision. This blog will giv…

Hosted DoltDB's SQL workbench is now writeable