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So you want an AI Database?
Here at DoltHub, we built the world's first version-controlled SQL database: Dolt. What do version control and databases have to do with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? It turns out, a lot. At first, we were skeptical about the AI revolution, but then...
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Garbage Collection in Dolt
Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for garbage collection in Dolt. To manage on-disk storage for D...
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Using Dolt with Deepnote
Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to store and share Dolt databases. Python is the language of data science. As such, we created Doltpy, a Python interface to Dolt. We continue to itera...
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Benchmarking Dolt with Sysbench
At DoltHub we are building Dolt, a relational database with Git-like version control features. Naturally we are interested in measuring the performance profile of Dolt, and we would also like to make it easy for contributors to assess the effect of t...
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Announcing Merge on DoltHub
Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. Our goal is to make it easier to collaborate on data, and pull requests, or proposed changes to a repository, are an essential part of this process. Before today, ...
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Data Collaboration on DoltHub
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like functionality, including clone, fork, push, pull, branch, and merge. DoltHub is a place on the internet for hosting, publishing, sharing and collaborating on Dolt databases. A few weeks ago, we announced support f...
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Announcing triggers
Dolt is Git for Data, a SQL database you can branch, merge, clone, fork, sync, push and pull. Today we're excited to announce a major new SQL feature: support for triggers! What's a trigger? Triggers are basically little SQL code snippets that you ...
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September Dataset Spotlight
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...
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Uncovering MySQL's Gotchas
Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. Dolt comes with a SQL engine built in, which lets you run SQL queries against any version of the data you've committed. Our goal is to become fully SQL compliant and compatible with MySQ...
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Liquidata Inc. is now DoltHub Inc.
Today, we are changing our company name to DoltHub Inc. It's the end of the Liquidata era. We will be changing our emails and all our company branding to reflect the name change. DoltHub Liquidata Origin Story We started Liquidata a little over tw...
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Pruning 90% of Dolt's SQL server code
Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. Dolt comes with a SQL engine built in, which lets you run SQL queries against any version of your data you've committed. Dolt's SQL engine is go-mysql-server, which we forked and then ad...
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Oracle Support in SQL Sync
Dolt is a relational database with Git-like version control features. In particular the underlying data storage format is a commit graph, and each commit represents the complete state (schema and data) of the database at a point in time. Doltpy, our ...
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Introducing Forks
Today, DoltHub released forks. It is the same system that Github uses for collaboration on over 100 million repositories contributed to by their 40+ million users. For the first time there is a general platform for data collaboration, and we hope it ...
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Using DoltHub for Decentralized Database Collaboration
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. We recently adopted Discord as a low friction way to interact with our customers. It's been a really positive experiment. Our community is ...
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Tags and Data Releases in Dolt
Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like functionality. It allows you to branch, merge, diff and clone data sets, by combining the data structures and algorithms of a relational database with a distributed version control system. DoltHub is a place on th...
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Introducing Column Defaults
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, while adding all of the versioning features y...
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Dolt Implementation Notes — Push And Pull On a Merkle DAG
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 ...
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Dolt SQL Server MySQL Client Support
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...
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Dolt as a Data Management Service
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....
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August Dataset Spotlight
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...
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Dr. Discord, or: How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Public Chat
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...
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