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We have been running the DoltHub dataset spotlight since May 2020. This is our eighth issue. The intent was to add additional exposure to Dolt datasets published on DoltHub. Publishing this blog monthly has…

Introduction Dolt is Git for Data. It's a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, and merge. Dolt's SQL engine is go-mysql-server, and today we're going to discuss how it implements join planning…

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, …

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 schem…

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 ti…

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 ecosyst…

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 jum…

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 way…

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 mea…

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 ou…

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 compari…

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…

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 f…

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 makin…

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 …

"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 …

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…

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 red…

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.), wr…

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 elect…