Tim Sehn

November 1, 2021

It's that time again. We just finished the US businesses bounty so it's time for a new bounty. We are launching a $10,000 bounty to build SHAQ. Shared Hoops Database for Accessible Querying. Shaq! We had some Dolt-curious folks who work with the N...

Aaron Son

October 29, 2021

Here at DoltHub, we write a lot of software in Go. We've previously blogged a little bit about error handling and errgroup in particular, but today I wanted to share two patterns regarding errgroups that came up recently in some code changes. Be Car...

Tim Sehn

October 27, 2021

Dolt is a version controlled database. In order to offer full, robust, Git-style version control for both schema and data, Dolt makes some performance trade offs. Each write needs to be stored to disk and hashed for easy comparison against what is th...

Zach Musgrave

October 25, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a git repository. Its storage engine is built from the ground up to make these operations possible, but over the wire it speaks MySQL, and should be a drop-in replacem...

Brian Fitzgerald

October 23, 2021

Finding Dolt Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is the only database that offers complete Git versioning for data. Dolt databases are MySQL compliant but can be created and edited locally, replicated to remote servers, and incrementally imp...

Max Hoffman

October 20, 2021

TL;DR: Today we're excited to introduce read replication for Dolt! Read replication is a common way to scale read-heavy applications by copying data from a source server to replicas. Setting DOLT_REPLICATE_TO_REMOTE and DOLT_READ_REPLICA_REMOTE in y...

Taylor Bantle

October 18, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. The source code for DoltHub is private, and we recently decided to make a public repository for DoltHub issues while we work on making DoltHub open source. The...

Aaron Son

October 15, 2021

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database — a database where users and their applications can branch, merge, push, pull and clone the value of their database. It works on a similar model to git, where commits referring to a snapshot of a value ...

Dustin Brown

October 13, 2021

Greetings! Today we are excited to share that we now publish Dolt releases on both winget and Chocolatey, making Dolt even easier to install for our Windows users. Prior to this, Windows users had to visit Dolt's releases page to download and run the...

Tim Sehn

October 11, 2021

The genesis for DoltHub the company was a persistent question starting in 2013. Why is there no place on the internet to get access to interesting, maintained data? DoltHub's thesis was adding branch/merge to data in some way similar to what we had i...

Max Hoffman

October 8, 2021

Whether due to clumsiness, physical damage, or malicious actors, the worst thing that can happen to your data is irretrievable loss. But this is a feature release, not a postmortem, and we are excited to announce Dolt backups! The CLI now includes d...

Zach Musgrave

October 6, 2021

A few months ago I got interviewed by a substack on open source development about Dolt. One of the questions I was glad to answer was what motivates me to contribute to Dolt. Well there's the money, obviously. But more than that, it's being part of a...

Taylor Bantle

October 4, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. For about a year we've been working on adding more ways to edit data on DoltHub. Edit like a spreadsheet has been one of the most asked about features on our ro...

Tim Sehn

October 1, 2021

Dolt is a version controlled database. How would one use such a thing? Do you gather data from a bunch of sources? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects at ingestion or do defects manifest downstream as production errors? How long does it ...

Dustin Brown

September 29, 2021

Today we are announcing that with the release of Dolt v0.30.0, both the Dolt CLI and DoltHub will initialize branch main instead of branch master. This change is backwards compatible, so using this Dolt version with older databases will work normally...

Brian Fitzgerald

September 27, 2021

demo blog image Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-like versioning semantics. Dolt is fast becoming a complete drop-in replacement for MySql. More specifically, this is what Dolt adds to a familiar SQL database: time travel: query the da...

Andy Arthur

September 24, 2021

Last month we published the second blog in a series about running Django on Dolt. Using Dolt as an application-backing store is a new direction for the product. It represents a shift in thinking from "Dolt is a format" to "Dolt is a database". Today ...

Max Hoffman

September 22, 2021

TLDR We recently introduced a new Dolt feature: interacting with remotes from SQL server sessions. Dolt is a modern relational database that supports Git style fetch, pull, and push semantics. Although originally developed for the command line, we ...

Tim Sehn

September 20, 2021

Our $10,000 US Schools bounty just completed. We assembled a cleaned, free database of US schools. Please use it and let us know what you think. How did we do? This bounty was a little strange because it turned out multiple relatively large public ...

Tim Sehn

September 16, 2021

Understand Database Version Control - definitions, methods, and tools. Add version control to your database schema and data. The Dolt database versions data and schema in a Git-like way.