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title: "What is DoltHub"
description: The hosted Git server for Dolt databases — browsing, pull requests, discovery, and a public data catalog.
---


![](../../.gitbook/assets/dolthub-preview.png)

[DoltHub](https://www.dolthub.com) is a place to share Dolt databases. We host public data for free! DoltHub adds a modern, secure, always on database management web GUI to the Dolt ecosystem. Edit your database on the web, have another person review it via a pull request, and have the production database pull it to deploy.

DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. DoltHub acts as a [Dolt remote](/concepts/dolt/git/remotes) you can [clone, push, pull and fetch](/cli-reference/cli) from. DoltHub adds [permissions](/concepts/dolthub/permissions), [pull requests](/concepts/dolthub/prs), [issues](/concepts/dolthub/issues), and [forks](/concepts/dolthub/forks) to the Dolt ecosystem. Additionally, DoltHub has a modern SQL workbench built in so you can explore and change databases on the web.

## Getting Started

DoltHub has many uses. We recommend getting started by [sharing a database](/products/dolthub/data-sharing).

[Data Sharing](/products/dolthub/data-sharing)

This documentation will walk you through discovering data on DoltHub, cloning a copy locally, making a change on a fork, and submitting a pull request to the original database.

## DoltHub API

DoltHub exposes [three independent HTTP APIs](/products/dolthub/api/):

1. [v1alpha1 API](/products/dolthub/api/v1alpha1) — the resource-oriented surface for SQL, databases, branches, pull requests, releases, tags, file uploads, jobs, and the authenticated user.
2. [CSV](/products/dolthub/api/csv) — bulk export and import of table data as CSV.
3. [Webhooks](/products/dolthub/api/hooks) — HTTP callbacks for database events like push and pull request.

## Guides

- [Transform File Uploads](/products/dolthub/transform-uploads)

We added a feature to [Transform DoltHub File Uploads](/products/dolthub/transform-uploads). This allows you to set up an API to receive and transform files that are uploaded to your databases on DoltHub. The transformed files are sent back to DoltHub for import to a DoltHub database.

- [Workspaces](/products/dolthub/workspaces)

We added the workspaces concept to DoltHub as a staging area for changes made from the
web. Learn what workspaces are and how to use them most effectively.

- [Continuous Integration](/products/dolthub/continuous-integration/)

DoltHub and DoltLab support continuous integration (CI) testing which allow you to validate changes before you commit them on your primary branch. Learn how to configure and run CI on your DoltHub and DoltLab databases.