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A question we have been asked numerous times is, "Can Dolt be used as an application server"? This has driven a lot of conversations internally about the use cases of a versioned database server, and led to s…

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the dominant mode of distributing data on the internet. Twitter debates in the data science community about Comma Separated Value (CSV) files vs APIs have flared u…

DoltHub is the online data community powered by Dolt, the version-controlled SQL database. In the previous article in this series, we took an overview of DoltHub's front-end architecture. In this article, …

Dolt is a SQL database that provides Git-like functionality, including clone, push, pull, branch, and merge. This post is part of a series exploring how Dolt stores table data. In our previous post, How Dol…

Twitter is wonderful sometimes. Train/Test Tweet We don't know Aaron. He finds us on Twitter, asks a great question, makes us think, and prompts a blog post. How can you use Dolt to manage train/test …

Dolt has been rapidly expanding its capabilities as a SQL server recently. We've done a lot of work to get the dolt sql-server command to be a stable peer to the built-in SQL shell, with all the same capabi…

In our blogs we have shown over and over again how easy it is to clone data from DoltHub and immediately start querying it with SQL. We are constantly working on improving our data catalog. As we do, there em…

go-mysql-server is the SQL query execution engine that powers Dolt and DoltHub. Today we are excited to announce that we are adopting the project after its founding company ceased operations. Our fork of…

This blog entry is the first in a new series. Every month we will highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus will be on new or updated datasets but sometimes we'll shed fresh light on a classic.…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place to share Dolt repositories. Dolt is Git for data. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. We want to host your public data on DoltHub. We think Dolt and…

Background While building Dolt and DoltHub, we have had many conversations with our users. They all share an interest in finding better ways to manage data. They recognize that writing code to massage CSV, …

Dolt is Git for data. It's a database that lets you clone, fork, branch, merge and diff. This is a really cool technology that has a lot of uses, but today we're going to focus on just one: using Dolt SQL …

TLDR: The NVD is a lot more useful when you can simply clone it and query it. The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for the publication of Common Vulnerabilities and Expos…

Happy 4/20! Today is April 20th, the unofficial holiday of marijuana afficionados the world over. Happy 4/20! Or, as we in the data business like to say, Happy 20%! 4/20 is 1/5 is 20% Recreational m…

Dolt is to DoltHub as Git is to GitHub - except with Dolt, the unit of versioning is SQL tables. Dolt also has Git-like semantics such as pull, branch and merge. By running dolt pull in a Dolt repository, you …

UPDATED FEBRUARY 10, 2021: Updated the final table with the types that have been added to Dolt since the article was first written. When we started on Dolt, our goal was to apply Git's idea of versioning to…

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Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. In Git the unit of versioning is files. In Dolt, the unit of versioning is SQL tables. Dolt will eventually support 100% of the Git command line and 100% of My…

Dolt and DoltHub are Git and GitHub for data. The same way that GitHub enables collaboration on source code repositories in Git format, DoltHub enables collaboration on data repositories in Dolt format. A v…

Tracking Dolt's SQL regressions As part of our journey to make Dolt a great SQL database, we set out to track the correctness of Dolt’s SQL engine against a suite of SQL tests called the sqllogictests. The…