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. FEATURE RELEASEWEB
    3 min read

    Pull Request Diff Comments

    DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We're committed to making data collaboration seamless and effective for you, which is why we're excited to share an exciting addition to our pull request...

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  2. 9 min read

    A bug in MySQL, or working as intended? You decide

    Introduction We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database. Dolt advertises itself as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so if your current application works on MySQL you can swap in Dolt on the backend with no code c...

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  3. SQL
    17 min read

    Four 9's of Correctness

    sqllogictests is a collection of around 6 million sql correctness tests, designed to be used a as benchmark for SQL engine implementations. Although sqllogictests was made by the sqlite team, it can check for compatibility with several differ...

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  4. SQL
    6 min read

    Why SQL?

    In the mid-2000s SQL was having a rough time. NoSQL was all the rage. A chorus of senior engineers shouted: "SQL doesn't scale." "Oracle...Microsoft...waaaaaah! "DBAs are expensive and get in developer's way" "$10,000 per core for a...

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  5. SQLFEATURE RELEASE
    5 min read

    How to Use Lateral Joins

    Dolt is the first SQL database that versions data with Git semantics. Using Dolt is as easy as downloading the binary , picking a directory for your data ( mydb ), running dolt sql-server , and using a MySQL client to connect mysql -h 0.0.0....

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  6. FEATURE RELEASEHOSTED
    11 min read

    Replication Updates

    Dolt supports three types of replication : Remote-based replication launched October 2021 Standby replication launched October 2022 Replicate from MySQL to Dolt launched February 2023 Hosted Dolt launched read replicas in...

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  7. SQLFEATURE RELEASE
    7 min read

    Announcing: Scheduled Events

    We're excited to announce support for executing scheduled events on a Dolt sql-server! Scheduled Events is a MySQL feature that lets you define SQL statements that run on a set schedule. You can think of it as the SQL server equivalent of cron j...

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  8. GOLANG
    9 min read

    Using AWS Lambda with Golang to Generate On-call Calendars

    We love developing in Go here at DoltHub. Our core product is DoltDB – an open-source, versioned, relational database that combines Git's distributed versioning features with all the power and expressiveness of a SQL database. Dolt is built from...

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  9. INTEGRATION
    20 min read

    Getting Started with Dolt and Knex.js

    Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database . Dolt is MySQL-compatible so all the tools you use with MySQL work the same way with Dolt, including Knex.js (which is surprisingly pronounced /k'nex/ instead of /nex/ - Tim wo...

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  10. REFERENCE
    8 min read

    Python `autocommit` Off By Default

    The snake doesn't like to commit. In Python autocommit is off by default in the Database API . This is different than other standard database connectors like ODBC and JDBC. Most common databases have autocommit on by default including SQL...

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  11. TECHNICAL
    10 min read

    Running an open-source project Discord server

    We are writing Dolt , the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's free and open source software, and we've been using Discord to connect with our users for a little over 3 years. This blog is about why we picked Discord an...

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  12. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    5 min read

    Reannouncing Dolt Query Diff

    A couple years ago, we announced a version of query-diff . The feature always made us nervous. Dolt's storage engine promises fast diff based on content-addressed prolly trees . However, query-diff doesn't take advantage of Prolly trees; ra...

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  13. BOUNTY
    7 min read

    Bye Bye Data Bounties

    We're saying Good Bye to one of DoltHub 's most unique experiments, Data Bounties . DoltHub started with a data marketplace mission. Data Bounties were our best idea to bootstrap a virtuous cycle between data producers and data consumers. Da...

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  14. REFERENCEINTEGRATION
    11 min read

    Dolt + Google Sheets

    Dolt , DoltHub , and Hosted Dolt can be used for Spreadsheet Version Control . Many of our customers migrated to Dolt from a really complicated, heavily edited spreadsheet . I first tested Dolt against Google Sheets in fall of 2020 wor...

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  15. HOSTEDWEB
    3 min read

    Single Sign-On for your organizations on Hosted Dolt

    Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. We recently received a feature request for SAML integration for a single sign-on (SSO) solution to hosted.doltdb.com , which is available now! What is SAML? SAML (...

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  16. SQL
    9 min read

    Will it merge?

    Dolt DB is the world's first fully-versioned SQL relational database. It allows you to track the history of your data in every row and every column of all your tables. In the same way that Git enables you to branch, merge, fork, and diff your sou...

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  17. GOLANG
    9 min read

    Much Ado About Nil Things: More Go Pitfalls

    Previously, I wrote an article about pitfalls befouling Go newcomers. These were each lessons that I personally learned while working on go-mysql-server , a drop-in replacement for MySQL written entirely in Go. We made it to be the best pure-G...

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  18. SQL
    3 min read

    Three 9's of Correctness

    Dolt is a SQL database with a custom storage layer designed for Git semantics. Dolt supports fast branching, diffing, and merging, plus all of the features MySQL provides. One of the ways we track our compatibility with MySQL are sqllogictests...

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  19. FEATURE RELEASECOMMAND LINE
    4 min read

    Introducing Dolt Profiles

    Dolt's CLI has been getting a bit of a revamp recently. With more CLI commands migrated to use SQL to retrieve results, it's easier than ever to access your remote data this way. Our most recently migrated command is dolt log ! $ dolt -...

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  20. 13 min read

    How to create automated paging and on-call at your startup

    For growing software startups offering online products and services, there comes a time when having on-call engineers becomes a necessity. As customers and service level agreements begin to increase, someone needs to always be available to address…...

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