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So you want an AI Database?
Here at DoltHub, we built the world's first version-controlled SQL database: Dolt. What do version control and databases have to do with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? It turns out, a lot. At first, we were skeptical about the AI revolution, but then...
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Analyzing Data with Dolt and R
Dolt is Git for data – it's a SQL database that lets you clone, branch, diff, merge, and fork your data just like you can with files in Git. R is a programming language designed for statistical computing and data visualization. This blog post shows h...
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Announcing DoltLab v0.2.0
About a month ago we announced the release of our latest product, DoltLab, the self-hosted version of DoltHub. This initial release, v0.1.0, made it possible for users to quickly host, deploy, and manage their own DoltHub instances albeit with some l...
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Working with DoltHub to Create Pull Requests
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. To make dolt familiar, we gave it the same command line in...
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Introducing Spatial Types
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With every release of Dolt, we approach our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL. In our latest release, we added a beta implementation of spatial types, and in this blog post I'll g...
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SQL Vertical Output Format
Dolt is a database that has Git-like version control features and MySQL-like database handling features. Every day we come closer to achieving full functionality of both Git and MySQL. We support the main features of Git including branch, merge, diff...
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Debugging Deadlocks in Dolt
Here at DoltHub we're building a database. Dolt is the only SQL database you can branch, merge, diff and clone. It's a MySQL compatible database with version control. As Dolt matures, we're continually improving its stability and reliability. Our goa...
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Utilize Branches on DoltHub
Dolt brings branch semantics to databases. Just like git, you can checkout a new branch, commit changes, and merge branches. DoltHub is a visual editor for Dolt and a place where you can share Dolt databases on the web. Creating branches is a core f...
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Managing Branches and Releases on DoltHub
DoltHub is the website where you can share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt version-controlled databases. DoltHub lets you edit data directly on the website using SQL queries or a spreadsheet like-interface on a separate working branch of your data...
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Customizing Aggregations With Window Frames
Window Frames Dolt is a database that speaks the MySQL wire protocol but uses a custom SQL Engine to implement relational logic. Our engine, go-mysql-server, is increasingly inching towards 100% drop-in MySQL compatibility, and today we are happy in...
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Clones Vs Branches
Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. DoltLab is a self-hosted version of DoltHub. Dolt brings Git-style version control to the relational database. Often, Dolt users want a su...
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Creating a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper
Here at DoltHub some of us have been working with PostgreSQL extensions recently. This is an introductory tutorial on how to get started building a PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper. We introduce the basics around setting up a project for building and...
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DoltHub is the Figma of Databases Video
DoltHub is a collaborative database We recently wrote a blog about how DoltHub is the Figma of databases. Figma is a popular collaborative interface design tool that has changed the way designers collaborate. Figma in particular is cool because it h...
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Check out what’s new on DoltHub - from your phone
DoltHub on desktop and mobile 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 repositories. Recently, we released a few changes to the way DoltH...
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How to Choose a Database for your Project
What Database Type Should You Use? There are a few factors that go into choosing a database for your project. SQL vs NoSQL, vertical vs horizontally scalable, open-source vs proprietary, and run the database yourself vs a managed cloud service. In t...
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Everything through the SQL Engine
Introduction Originally, Dolt was a CLI tool focused on data sharing and collaboration. As a CLI tool, Dolt exposed commands that allowed users to import, commit, branch, and merge data. About 1.5 years ago our company decided to focus on building D...
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Transforming postgres dumps to MySQL dumps
Introduction We are building Dolt, the only SQL database that you can branch and merge, fork and clone, push and pull like a Git repository. For Dolt's SQL interface, we chose to implement the MySQL dialect and wire protocol, simply because MySQL is...
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Making your first pull request
Participating in our bounties is easier than ever With DoltHub's graphical tools it's easier than ever to contribute to one of our online databases. We've put out a new video that shows you how to do it, step-by-step. Are you interested in particip...
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Announcing DoltLab: Your Self-Hosted DoltHub Solution
In recent months, we've had a number of customers reach out to us in Discord telling us they're interested in exploring Dolt for their company, but feel uncomfortable pushing their company's private data to DoltHub. More often than not, these conver...
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The Challenge of Building a Database
Why Would You Build a New Database? Building a database is a notoriously hard problem. MySQL and other traditional databases have a reputation for being solid, functional, and historically well-performing. So why build a new one? Databases haven’t s...
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Announcing Write Queries for DoltHub's SQL API
DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. It's been our goal to add more features to make it easy to add and edit data on DoltHub. As a part of this roadmap, we're excited to announce our previously rea...
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