Tim Sehn

December 23, 2020

Last Monday, we released our first data bounty to earn a share of $25,000 by wrangling US Presidential Precinct-level data. This blog will update you on the progress and encourage you to participate. Finally, we'll get a little meta and let you know ...

Andy Arthur

December 21, 2020

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, it's Git for Data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. Today, we're announcing support for keyless tables in Dolt. Strongly typed schemas are the best and worst parts of relational ...

Brian Hendriks

December 17, 2020

On Monday we launched Bounties, a product that pays users to gather and clean data. In less than a week, our first data bounty has already shown the power of Dolt as a collaborative data platform. In that time our bounty has received 22 Pull requests...

Tim Sehn

December 16, 2020

In 2018, we started the company that is now DoltHub to "create a place on the internet to get access to interesting, maintained data". The data ecosystem of today reminds us a lot of the open source ecosystem of the late 1990s early 2000s. It's ther...

Tim Sehn

December 14, 2020

Today, we're launching a way to make money building Dolt databases called Bounties. We'll have a follow on blog post Wednesday explaining the motivations for the Bounties feature. But today, we're going to jump right to the chase and explain how you ...

Background This is a guest blog post by a member of the DoltHub community, detailing how they went about accumulating presidential tweets in Dolt. We are grateful to our community members for showing us ways of using Dolt we didn’t think of, and als...

Vinai Rachakonda

December 9, 2020

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database with version control tooling. While Dolt is nearing full MySQL compatibility, its current command line interface (CLI) functionality hasn't been accessible in SQL. That means that you can't currently run operation...

Zach Musgrave

December 7, 2020

Dolt is Git for Data. It's a SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull, just like files in Git. Today we're going to be talking about our quest to get Dolt's branding right, and our first attempt to find a mascot that reflec...

Oscar Batori

December 4, 2020

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. Dolt's query interface is SQL, and it has Git-like version control features. Adding version control features to a SQL database has performance trade offs when comparing Dolt with traditional databases like M...

Tim Sehn

December 2, 2020

Every month we highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus is on new or updated datasets but sometimes we shed fresh light on a classic. For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tab...

Andy Arthur

November 30, 2020

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for filter-branch in Dolt. "Customer focus" is a mantra for our company. In August,...

Dustin Brown

November 23, 2020

Github Actions FTW Not too long ago we endeavored to migrate Dolt's continuous integration pipeline from Jenkins to Github Actions. I wrote a blog about that process and complimented Github Actions on making the migration process intuitive and easy....

Aaron Son

November 20, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt targets compatibility with MySQL as an existing SQL dialect and wire protocol. We built Dolt on top of an excellent open-source implement...

Oscar Batori

November 17, 2020

"Database version control" and "version controlled database" are not the same thing. Version controlling your database refers to the practice of storing schema and schema modifications in a traditional source control system like Git. "Version control...

Brian Hendriks

November 16, 2020

When Tim, Aaron, and I started working on this problem in August 2018 we immediately began playing with Noms. It was an open source project that gave us a lot of the things Aaron and I had been talking about in order to deliver the features we felt w...

Taylor Bantle

November 13, 2020

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. A few weeks ago I wrote about merging pull requests on DoltHub and our roadmap for "edit on the web". We're working on reducing friction for collaborating on data ...

Oscar Batori

November 11, 2020

We originally built Dolt because we thought that existing data distribution formats were broken. In particular, we believed that consumers of data should not have to parse various formats (CSV, JSON, etc.), write ingestion logic and decide on update ...

Zach Musgrave

November 9, 2020

After four years of incredibly rancorous discourse about whether the US President was illegitimately elected with the help of foreign interference, it should surprise no one that the 2020 presidential election is mired in similar claims of illegitima...

Andy Arthur

November 6, 2020

Dolt is a database built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. We intend to become a fully MySQL compatible database. Today, we're announcing support for ...

Oscar Batori

November 1, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features. It presents a familiar SQL interface while exposing Git-like primitives for versioning tables and their data. Doltpy is a Python API for interacting with Dolt in Python. This post details...