Nick Tobey

December 19, 2024

Suppose you have a directory of files that you want to sync with your friends. When the files change, you want your friends to be able to download just the changes without needing to re-download the entire directory again. And you want this to scal...

Tim Sehn

December 18, 2024

Last week, I wrote an article going over the basic configuration options in Dolt's main SQL Server configuration file, config.yaml . That article was already really long, clocking in at a 23 minute read according to Gatsby, our blog publish...

Liu Liu

December 17, 2024

Dolt Workbench now lets you set up remotes and sync databases by pulling and pushing changes.

Brian Hendriks

December 16, 2024

In my last blog I talked about a lot of aspects of taking your Dolt database to production. One of the things I mentioned was the importance of securing your database, but didn't cover the acquisition and deployment of SSL certificates. In th...

James Cor

December 13, 2024

A demonstration, complete with sample code, on how to use Mydumper with Dolt, the world's first version controlled SQL database.

Dustin Brown

December 12, 2024

We're excited to announce that CI testing on pull requests is now live on DoltHub.com.

Jason Fulghum

December 11, 2024

Dolt now supports caching_sha2_password auth, which you may need if you want to use the MySQL-9.0 innovation release.

Tim Sehn

December 10, 2024

Hot on the heels of my overview of Dolt configuration , I'm going to do a deep dive on config.yaml , the configuration file for a Dolt SQL Server. As I was writing the configuration overview, I realized our documentation on our main configurati...

Tim Sehn

December 9, 2024

Dolt is a decentralized database . In the past ten years or so decentralization has gone through a few hype cycles. I think we're in a pro-decentralization hype period right now. Decentralization hype tracks the price of Bitcoin and last I checke...

Taylor Bantle

December 6, 2024

As Doltgres is being rapidly developed, we needed Postgres-specific solutions to certain version control features that are implemented in Dolt. This blog walks through how we converted MySQL-flavored system tables in Dolt to Postgres-flavored system tables that account for different schemas and types in Doltgres.

Nick Tobey

December 5, 2024

Last time, I discussed a specific design problem that I encountered while writing generic code in Go, and how I eventually solved it. I was proud that I had found a solution, although less proud that it wasn't the cleanest. ...

Tim Sehn

December 4, 2024

Dolt configuration is a bit of a mess. To start, it's a union of Git and MySQL styles of configuration. Then, Dolt specific configuration is sprinkled on top. It's been on our list for a long time to consolidate and rationalize Dolt configuration...

Tim Sehn

December 3, 2024

Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database. Dolt is fully MySQL-compatible. You connect to it with any MySQL client. Some MySQL clients require connection authentication using Transport Layer Security (TLS) . TLS is ofte...

Taylor Bantle

December 2, 2024

The Dolt Workbench illustrates how much better the workbench experience can be when using a version controlled database. Find out how and why in this blog.

Jason Fulghum

November 29, 2024

Perl is still alive and well and works beautifully with Dolt databases.

Brian Hendriks

November 27, 2024

So you've been using Dolt for a while, and you are ready to take the next step and use it in production. Whether you are running your production environment on prem, or in the cloud, there are several steps you should take to ensure that your Dol...

Zach Musgrave

November 26, 2024

Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository. Like files in Git, tables and other data in Dolt are content-addressed by a...

Max Hoffman

November 24, 2024

I ran into a performance trade-off last week attempting to improve long-running queries by changing the ways rows are structured. A more general row interface increases memory overhead but lets us skip encoding overhead. Unfortunately, joins create...

Nick Tobey

November 22, 2024

This comment on ycombinator lives rent-free in my head. Nothing before or since has captured my feelings on Go quite as succinctly. Take for instance, generics. Or its more precise name: parametric polymorp...

Dustin Brown

November 21, 2024

Get a glimpse into the design process for DoltHub's latest feature, continuous integration testing.