Aaron Son

September 9, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like functionality, including branch, merge and diff and push and pull to remotes. This is a post in a series of posts about the internal workings of some of the core algorithms that underly Dolt's implementation. The ...

Tim Sehn

September 8, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. Dolt ships with a MySQL compatible server that you can start on a repository using dolt sql-server. Once started, you can then connect to the running server using standard MySQL clients. We now suppo...

Oscar Batori

September 4, 2020

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. What that looks like in practice is a SQL engine sitting on top of a commit graph like storage format. Dolt SQL is a superset of MySQL that provides access to the database at every point in the commit graph....

Tim Sehn

August 31, 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...

Zach Musgrave

August 26, 2020

Executive summary We are a small startup team building a new database tool called Dolt, which is Git for Data. This is the story of how we chose to use Discord for our open source project. You can join our server now! The Fermi Paradox of open sour...

Oscar Batori

August 24, 2020

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. It behaves like a traditional relational database in that it offers a SQL interface for data and schema management, but the underlying data structure is a commit graph inspired by Git. One natural use-case i...

Andy Arthur

August 21, 2020

Dolt is Git for data, a relational database built to create, publish and consume datasets. DoltHub hosts a growing collection of public open datasets stored as Dolt databases. DoltHub allows you explore data through its SQL query interface. We're exc...

Dustin Brown

August 19, 2020

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub hosts a growing collection of public open datasets. Recently, we created dolthub/fbi-nibrs reflecting the FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) crime data. Law enforcement agencies from around the Uni...

Taylor Bantle

August 17, 2020

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that hosts Dolt repositories. At the beginning of the year we redesigned DoltHub and decided to try out Cypress as our end-to-end testing solution (similar to how we use Bats tests for Dolt). L...

Tim Sehn

August 12, 2020

Dolt is Git for data. Recently, we've been thinking a lot about what could be Dolt's Linux. A reader of that blog had a suggestion, an open GPT-3 dataset. Dolt really shines as a collaborative database where many users are making distributed edits. ...

Taylor Bantle

August 10, 2020

We use Cypress to test DoltHub in production. Learn how we set up Cypress and write tests for our pages against different screen sizes.

Oscar Batori

August 7, 2020

Open Data Validation Recently an article made the rounds at our company about "data integrity" checks. The article advocates that in the absence of perfect code that never corrupts data, it's wise to have "data integrity checks" that ensure data qua...

Zach Musgrave

August 5, 2020

Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. Dolt's SQL engine is go-mysql-server, which is an open source project that we adopted a few months ago. Today we're excited to announce better support for subqueries in the engine, a...

Tim Sehn

August 3, 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...

Oscar Batori

July 31, 2020

A core motivation for building DoltHub was to empower organizations to collaboratively create and maintain high quality data assets that they could collectively depend on. This is very much analogous to GitHub. Analogies are powerful ways to articula...

Brian Hendriks

July 29, 2020

On June 13th, 2016 Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion due to its ability to successfully monetize the resumes of its users. They have proven the value of a resume database and sell premium services that let recruiters search this database ...

Oscar Batori

July 24, 2020

Introduction In the past we have blogged about the IRS Sources of Income (SOI) data that we harvested and published as a Dolt database. We presented a compelling visualization that was relatively straightforward to create using that database. It was...

Tim Sehn

July 22, 2020

Today, we're taking a break from our regularly scheduled Dolt and DoltHub content to talk about our experience as a ten person startup in Los Angeles over the past few months as we've all dealt with this pandemic. In the beginning... I can't say w...

Tim Sehn

July 20, 2020

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. In this blog post we discuss our search for Dolt's Linux. Git Git was built to manage the Linux open source project. Lore has it that Linu...

Taylor Bantle

July 17, 2020

DoltHub is a web application for hosting and collaborating on Dolt repositories. Until now, DoltHub has only supported creating accounts and signing in with third-party providers - currently Google and GitHub. We're excited to announce that DoltHub n...