1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…

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  1. DOLTGRES
    9 min read

    Doltgres Data Imports

    Doltgres has been improving by leaps and bounds lately, and in case you missed it... we just hit our beta milestone last week ! 🎉 Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database engine, supporting the MySQL dialect, and Doltgres brin...

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  2. DOLTGRESINTEGRATION
    17 min read

    Getting Started with Doltgres and Knex.js

    Doltgres is the Postgres flavor of Dolt . In case you missed it, Doltgres is now Beta ! This means that we expect Doltgres to work with all the tools you use with Postgres, including Knex.js . Knex.js is a "batteries included" SQL quer...

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  3. GOLANG
    9 min read

    Optimizing Heap Allocations in Golang: A Case Study

    I work on Dolt, the first SQL database with git-like version control , written entirely in Go. And as a rule, databases need to be fast. So we have lots of tests in our CI workflow to monitor performance regressions before they ever hit our main…...

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  4. DOLTGRES
    3 min read

    Why Doltgres over Dolt?

    In case you missed it, we shipped a Beta version of Doltgres yesterday. We worked on Doltgres for a year and a half and it finally hit our bar for Beta release. Doltgres is the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt , the world's first versi...

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  5. DOLTGRES
    5 min read

    Doltgres Beta Launch

    Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's a database that you can branch and merge, fork and clone, push and pull like a git repository. Dolt uses the MySQL dialect and wire protocol, but there's no MySQL code in it...

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  6. DOLTGRES
    5 min read

    Should Doltgres have a CLI?

    It's Doltgres Beta week here at DoltHub. In eager anticipation of tomorrow's Doltgres Beta launch, I have an appetizer to get you interested in Doltgres again. Currently, Doltgres does not ship with a Git- or Dolt-style command line interface ...

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  7. REFERENCEFEATURE RELEASE
    9 min read

    An Introduction to Adaptive Encoding

    Arguably the most important design decision in a database is one that most users probably never think about: how your data is actually stored on disk. On one hand, the storage format doesn't matter to the user because it's completely abstracted ...

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  8. 7 min read

    Dolt Archives Status Update

    The Dolt database is the first SQL Database with Git-style branching and merging . One natural consequence of this is the need to store data which grows proportionally to the number of writes over the database's lifetime. For our users to be…

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  9. SQL
    4 min read

    Stats Version 2

    Dolt is the first version controlled relational database. Among other things, reliable databases have fast and reliable query plans. We can make most queries fast with combinations of macro structural rearrangements like filter pushing and column...

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  10. AI
    7 min read

    We've Been Conned: The truth about Big LLM

    This is an intervention (but mostly a rant). Maybe it's for you, or maybe it's for me—perhaps it's for both of us. Regardless, it's time we face reality and stop pretending we're already living in the year 3000. We're being conned by Big LLM,...

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  11. 5 min read

    Selling Software: SaaS Tools Review

    Last week, we introduced a new blog series called "Selling Software" , named after the Netflix smash hit, Selling Sunset . DoltHub happens to be based in LA, not too far from Sunset. Tim , DoltHub's CEO, and I handle most of the selling here ...

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  12. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: SQL Select

    The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...

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  13. GOLANG
    8 min read

    Life as a Go developer on Windows

    We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. We build release binaries for all three major operating systems: Linux, OS X, and of course Windows. (Sorry Plan9). And in fact we have customers on all of these...

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  14. WEBHOSTED
    5 min read

    Hosted Dolt's Hidden GraphQL API

    Hosted Dolt is a cloud-deployed Dolt database. The application itself runs on React and is backed by a GraphQL server. DoltHub and DoltLab have an official API, documented here . Hosted Dolt is meant more for serving live queries rather than bu...

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  15. AI
    7 min read

    DoltHub SQL Assistant Technical Details

    Last week, we announced the DoltHub SQL Assistant , an LLM-powered SQL assistant that helps you write SQL queries on DoltHub. In today's post, we'll dive into the technical details of how DoltHub's SQL Assistant works behind the scenes. ...

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  16. 3 min read

    Selling Software: Introduction

    We're introducing a new blog series called "Selling Software", named after the Netflix smash hit, Selling Sunset . DoltHub happens to be based in LA, not too far from Sunset. Brian , DoltHub's Head of Sales, and I handle most of the selling her...

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  17. 9 min read

    Vibe Coding with `reset --hard`

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database which supports version control features branching and merging . As a business, we'd be foolish not to pay attention to the new frontier of computing: AI. The promise to make us, or our customers, 10X more…

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  18. 7 min read

    Vibe Coding with Cursor

    All the technology world is abuzz about AI. In particular, how it's going to take my job as a software developer. I like my job, and I don't really want to give it to a robot, so I thought I'd try out some of this AI hotness myself. I wanted to see...

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  19. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    GCP Hosted Dolt using Private Service Connect

    When we first released Hosted Dolt , every deployment that was created was reachable using the public internet. For some users, this was a non-starter. They needed to ensure that their database was only reachable from their own VPC. In July of la...

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  20. FEATURE RELEASE
    3 min read

    Dolt Server Connection Improvements

    Here at DoltHub, we've been building the world's first Git inspired SQL database. Along the way we've operated as you would expect a startup to operate - we've been iterating quickly and shipping features as soon as possible. One little gap we've…

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