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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 ve…

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…

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 algorit…

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 us…

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 dat…

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…

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 …

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 grap…

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 dat…

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…

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 (simil…

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 wher…

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

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 "…

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 b…

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…

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…

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…

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 straightfo…

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 pande…