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Need version control on your existing database? Dolt is a SQL database that can replace your current database but gives you version control features just like Git. The easiest way to migrate a MySQL database …

It's been six months since we launched DoltLab, the self-hosted version of DoltHub, and a lot has happened in this short amount of time. DoltLab is quickly becoming one of our most compelling product offeri…

Dolt is the first version controlled database in the world. It looks like a database, but can be branched, merged, and cloned like any Git repository. A year and a half ago we launched data bounties and use…

Announcing the $10,000 museum collections bounty It’s the year of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Which is also the promise of open data. For the museum-collections bounty we’re hoovering up colle…

Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data". Dolt's original focus was implementing Git-style version control on tables instead of files to enable users to share data like they share code. DoltHub was …

Dolt is a relational database that uses a custom storage layer and SQL engine to version data with Git-semantics. Every layer in the stack relies on thousands of tests to maintain MySQL compatibility and cor…

Fix Dolt Issues In this video, we show you how to start contributing to our open-source database, Dolt. We love when people start helping with any of our open issues. Check out the ones labeled Good First I…

Adding featured images to links shared on social media is a great way to drive website traffic. An image is worth 1,000 clever titles. If you're lucky, you could even go viral with the right picture. But the a…

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git like features. Until recently, if you wanted to run Dolt as your OLTP database you had to stand up your own instances deployed with the Dolt binary, and then hand…

If you haven't heard by now, Dolt is a version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database you can diff, branch, and merge. Dolt was engineered from the ground-up to support efficient versioning, which i…

Where's the Free Data? The DoltHub team has been hard at work making it easier to find open data on DoltHub. In this video, we show where to find free data on DoltHub. You can also now see how active these …

Dolt is Git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull just like a git repository. After studying the Web3 data ecosystem here, we've become fascinated …

How hospitals price-gouged insurance companies during the COVID-19 pandemic What happens when your insurance company gets a price that it can't refuse? And how can this even happen? Aren't insurance comp…

Decentralized software is offline first, sharable, fault tolerant, and trustless. Blockchains are a type of decentralized database but not the only option. Learn about different decentralized models and your c…

How to get Data off DoltHub with out Dolt In this video, we show you the different ways you can download data from a Dolt database on DoltHub. On DoltHub, you can download the most current version of the da…

Chances are you've heard us say that Dolt is "Git for data". For those who don't know, Dolt is a versioned SQL database with Git-style cloning, branching, merging, and diffing. Since Dolt's inception in 2018, …

Introduction Dolt is a decentralized database. Dolt uses the Git protocol of decentralization with SQL database tables. Anyone can clone a Dolt database and make reads and writes offline. When that person …

Hosted Dolt If you missed the news, Hosted Dolt is here! Hosted Dolt Logo We'll provision CPU, memory, and disk in a cloud and region of your choice and run a Dolt database for you. We'll handle monit…

In the beginning, there was Noms. The creation of Aaron Boodman and Attic Labs, Noms introduced Prolly Trees, a novel search index structure that supports diff, merge and sync operations. Noms development ha…