- REFERENCE9 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
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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- SQL5 min read
Perf, Two Steps Forward & One Step Back
I hit a performance snag recently trying to generalize the way we represent SQL rows in our execution engine. Rather than a row being a list of Go types: type Row [ ] interface { } I want to disguise byte arrays behind an interface:...
Read More - GOLANG10 min read
Are Golang Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study
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...
Read More - DOLTHUBREFERENCE7 min read
Designing CI on DoltHub
We recently announced support for continuous integration (CI) testing on DoltHub . This is a feature we're excited about since it allows our users to programmatically test changes on their data, instead of relying solely on human review. Fo...
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Dolt Pro Tips
Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database . We've been iterating on the concept for over six years now . We're the world's experts in database version control. Along the way we've learned a few things. This article...
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Postgres's missing quality of life features
We are hard at work building Doltgres , the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt . Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database and is MySQL compatible, and most of us at DoltHub are more familiar with MySQL than with Postg...
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JSON Showdown: Dolt vs Sqlite
Dolt was created to be the world's first truly version controlled database . We think it does a great job at that. And in the process of making Dolt, we realized that the same data structures that make Dolt fast and efficient at version control a...
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DoltHub is HIPAA Compliant
HIPAA certification is a security and privacy certification for organizations. HIPAA is generally required by customers dealing with health care data in the United States. This certification is very similar to Service Organization Controls 2 (SOC...
Read More - FEATURE RELEASE11 min read
Continuous integration testing on data
Continuous integration (CI) testing is a software development practice where automated tests are run against incoming code changes pushed by software developers collaborating on a code repository. If a developer pushes changes that fail to pass the...
Read More - REFERENCESQL7 min read
Old School DBT
Relational databases are an organizational step change improvement over flat files like Excel or JSON. Strict typing improves data quality and maintainability over time. Schema mutations, data versioning, lineage are tracked. And you get all of the...
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Doltgres Correctness Update
We are hard at work building Doltgres , the Postgres-compatible version of Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. We are planning a public Beta launch of Doltrgres in the first quarter of 2025 , and one of the most...
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What's up with all these Hashes?
When you are using Dolt, you'll come across a lot of 32 character random strings like k0j5gejn5ebnoqa3jr4pdkb6etbbrfri . For instance, each entry in your Dolt log has one. $ dolt log -n 3 commit o9vdhp8fj78nhoa2ul9fm5s7nkks5ovv ( HEA...
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fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat
String concatenation isn't the most elegant looking code: getFieldName := gf . tableName + "+" + gf . ColName But it's quite a bit faster than fmt.Sprintf , which arguably looks more organized: getFieldName := fmt ....
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Doltgres Now Supports Users
We're continuing to make progress on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. Dolt , is a MySQL compatible database is built from the ground up with Git-influenced version control features. Th...
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Building at Scale, Amazon style
A couple weeks ago, I discussed how Amazon was migrated to Git , and I mentioned the Brazil build system briefly. Brazil is a specialized version control system, which, in the past, was built on top of a SQL database. Today I'll talk a little ...
Read More - TECHNICAL15 min read
Multi-Source Replication From Dolt to MySQL
One of MySQL's greatest features is its robust replication support. MySQL replication provides scalability, reliability, and high availability benefits for MySQL-based systems and is extremely widely used in production deployments of MySQL. Here...
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An Ooey GUI Guide to Using Dolt
Dolt is inspired by Git and MySQL, two deeply command-line oriented software programs. Thus, Dolt started as a command line utility, matching almost all of Git's capabilities . We then added a MySQL-compatible server component so you could connec...
Read More - INTEGRATION6 min read
Use Dolt With MySQL Connector in Python
Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database. It means you can commit, diff and merge along with other Git-like version control actions. You can use Dolt with most workbenches, ORMs and SQL connectors that are available on the Internet....
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Sleuthing resource leaks in Dolt
Recently, users running SQL queries against their databases hosted on DoltHub has led us to uncovering some really interesting bugs in Dolt itself. In today's post, I'll take you on a journey as I recount our investigation of these bugs, and ...
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Dolt Roadmap update
Introduction At DoltHub, we ship features, a lot. We fix bugs in 24 hours , but we also have a lot of long-term projects we're working on at any given time. We keep track of these goals on our roadmap , which just got its periodic update ...
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How to Publish a Microsoft Windows Application
We recently released the Dolt Workbench desktop application for both Mac and Windows . In our previous blog , we covered how to submit an Electron application to the Mac App store. Now, we will guide you through the process of publishing ...
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