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Welcome back to the third post in this series exploring the tricks you can do with Dolt's magical versioning features! 🪄 In the first post of this series, we explored how the dolt_diff system table enable…

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…

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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 B…

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 requiri…

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 …

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

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 surprisi…

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 nati…

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 decisi…

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.

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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. W…

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 progre…

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…

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 M…

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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. …

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 featur…

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…