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Aaron, Brian and I founded DoltHub as Liquidata in 2018. Our mission was to add liquidity to the data market. How could we get more data shared? Our main hypothesis was adding branch/merge functionality as in …

DoltHub was started in 2018 to create a place on the internet to access interesting, maintained data. That vision drove us to build Dolt, a versioned, syncable data format. It's "Git for Data". This year we…

DoltHub has an office again. We're here on 2nd street in downtown Santa Monica. Whether or not to return to the office seems to be a topic of interest in the technology community. This blog entry is our take o…

Introduction Dolt and Flyte joined forces to build two data integrations. Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git Versioning. Flyte is a workflow orchestrator for creating and evolving machine learning …

Last Wednesday, May 27, we completed our fifth data bounty and first V2 bounty. The focus of the bounty was US hospital prices. We had run a bounty for hospital prices that ended March 1. We loved the results …

PDAP are early Dolt adopters. Their open data mission aligns with DoltHub's and we're sponsoring a bounty to help get their project off the ground. This post goes through the mission, the bounty and ways you c…

One of my favorite things about DoltHub is that users can navigate to any public database it hosts and run real time SQL queries against it. Where other open data sites only provide documentation about the dat…

Background Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features. We recently published a handful of case studies illustrating how companies are making use of Dolt in production settings. Of the com…

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, and merge. Today we're excited to announce the alpha release of SQL transactions! This blog will cover how transactions work in Dolt …

I've always enjoyed working on hardware projects. Some past projects include a dual analog controller that worked with my iPhone, a "Make it Rain" machine that threw out a real dollar bill every time you swip…

After spending 12 years at my previous company in multiple sales and sales leadership roles, I decided it was time for a change when Tim approached me about being the first full time sales person at his new da…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With each new version of Dolt, we increase the number of supported SQL features, moving toward our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL, whi…

Background Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features for both data and schema. This makes Dolt useful in a wide variety of applications while possessing a novel set of features. This blo…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to host and collaborate on Dolt databases. TLDR: DoltHub provides a SQL first interface for interacting with your Dolt database. DoltHub got a makeover! This post will det…

It's that time for our April dataset spotlight here at DoltHub. For new folks, Dolt is a SQL database with git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. This monthly featu…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We have a series about how we built DoltHub, which goes deeper into our system and front-end architecture. If you're c…

Dolt is an SQL database with Git versioning. We have come a long way since initially committing to 100% MySQL compatibility, and today we introduce our latest step in that journey: check constraints. What…

Today, I’m thrilled to announce a second round of the Hospital Price Transparency Bounty. Our first pass was very elucidating; we learned a lot about the “shape” of the data and we’re excited to let our Di…

Introduction Dolt and DVC are often compared because of because of DVC's name, Data Version Control. Dolt also does "data version control". So what's the difference? Well, DVC is a version controlled mac…

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, it's Git for Data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. We've built Dolt to support the MySQL query dialect, with the goal of becoming a dr…