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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 databas…

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…

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, st…

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 dial…

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. …

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, …

Dolt in Docker Tutorial Docker is a container runtime environment that some developers use to standardize dependency management. A "Dockerized" app has three lifecycle stages: Dockerfile: static depend…

Dolt is the world's first version controlled database. DoltHub is the place on the internet to share Dolt databases. About a year ago, we launched data bounties. Data bounties use Dolt's cell lineage featur…

We just finished SHAQ, one of our most competitive bounties ever. And off the heels of that, comes an even more ambitious project: tracking the US housing market. Every. Single. Sale. Let's track housing sa…

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt databases. We use Cypress.io as our end-to-end testing solution for DoltHub. To learn more about our journey with Cypress, check out our…

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 do…

A Prolly-Tree for Christmas Scary, we know. A few days before Christmas even. Who doesn’t love a scary story, though? Tim shares a story from his career of a database error that Dolt could have prevented o…

Doltpy Tutorial Doltpy is a library that makes it easier to execute Dolt commands in a Python environment. These features include: Convert Python functions to equivalent Dolt CLI shell commands. Tr…

Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. Learn about the different tools to version SQL queries and databases in a Git manner. Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, branch, merge, diff, and log just like a …

The bad old days of software development If you're under 40, you've probably heard tell of a time, way far back in the mists of ancient history, when software developers didn't commonly use source control…

Let's Build a Database Everyone loves a good origin story. In this video, our CEO Tim Sehn tells you DoltHub's story from Day 1. You'll learn why we called the company Dolt, our first product, and where we …

DoltHub is a web-based UI built in React to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We've recently been adding more features to make it easier to add and change data in your Dolt database on th…

DoltHub makes Schema Changes Easy This video will you show how to add columns to your Dolt database. It will also walk you through how to drop and add primary keys. This is all done online at Dolthub.com. W…

A customer recently experienced performance issues with a query similar to this: SELECT a.*, b.x, c.y from c INNER JOIN b ON b.id = c.id INNER JOIN a ON a.id = c.id WHERE a.x in {str_iterable_tos…