- 11 min read
So you want an AI Database?
Here at DoltHub, we built the world's first version-controlled SQL database: Dolt. What do version control and databases have to do with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? It turns out, a lot. At first, we were skeptical about the AI revolution, but then...
Read More
- 7 min read
The State of Hospital Price Transparency Data
DoltHub has been cranking away in the version controlled database space for six and a half years now. Those of you that have been following us since the beginning know that Dolt and DoltHub started as a data sharing tool. In service of this use case,...
Read More - 4 min read
Improving Dolt's getting-started experience with config templating
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. But it didn't start its life as a version-controlled database. It started as a command line tool for sharing datasets. And that history has shaped how you install and get started wit...
Read More - 13 min read
Using sqlx in Go to Query Dolt
Dolt is easy to query from Go apps. In this post, we show how to use the low-level database/sql package and the third-party sqlx library to query a Dolt sql-server.
Read More - 7 min read
Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Basics
Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. What does that mean in practice? We've been building Dolt for over six years now. We've been writing three blog articles a week for five years and five blog articles a week for almost a year. As we've produced ...
Read More - 4 min read
Fetching Tags: Faster than Ever!
Fetching a lot of redundant tags should be fast - Now it is!
Read More - 5 min read
Mind The convT
We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first version-controlled SQL database. This blog discusses how we sped up our table scans by 24% by avoiding interfaces at critical junctions. Interfaces Are Handy They modularize code along lines of common...
Read More - 7 min read
Announcing Vector Indexes
Dolt now allows tables to index vector columns in order to optimize Approximate Nearest Neighbor searches.
Read More - 5 min read
Dolt Root Superuser Changes
The Dolt root superuser is now persisted to disk and restricted to localhost by default
Read More - 4 min read
Announcing DoltLab Enterprise Offline mode
DoltLab Enterprise can now run in offline mode! Read more to learn how you can get started with offline Enterprise today.
Read More - 3 min read
Fetching and Syncing Remotes Using the Dolt Workbench
Learn how to synchronize your branches with remotes using the new fetch and sync features in the Dolt Workbench.
Read More - 11 min read
Using Rebase to Tidy up Dolt Commit History
Using Dolt's rebasing support can help you keep your development branches tidy, as demonstrated with a video game configuration example
Read More - 5 min read
DebugString(): a handy pseudo-standard for Go libraries
We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. dolt loves go As a database program, Dolt has to deal with lots of large data objects. Oftentimes, these large objects are deeply nested, with structs contain...
Read More - 5 min read
Dolt MySQL Differences
Here at DoltHub, we tell users "Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL". We're also quick to remind users that "There is no MySQL code in Dolt". Dolt is built from the storage engine up to be MySQL-compatible but also offer Git-style version control...
Read More - 4 min read
Dolt Wrapped 2024: A Year in Review
Spotify Wrapped popularized a version of the "year in review" format. Now everything is "wrapped". Why can't Dolt be wrapped too? Turns out, Dolt can be wrapped! We're ripping off Spotify's gimmick (but not personalizing it) for Dolt's Year in Revie...
Read More - 3 min read
Dolphie Works with Dolt
A demonstration, complete with sample code, on how to use Dolphie with Dolt, the world's first version controlled SQL database.
Read More - 4 min read
10% Slower Than MySQL
Four years ago DoltDB was about 15x slower than MySQL. At the time, we faced skepticism regarding Prolly-tree performance and scalability. Last year, the first production-grade DoltDB aspired to ~2x read latency compared to MySQL. This meant that a M...
Read More - 6 min read
The new maps and slices packages in Go 1.23: tour and examples
We're using Go to write Dolt, the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. dolt loves go Like any Go program that deals with data, we often find ourselves in need of high-level functions that transform data from one form into another...
Read More - 8 min read
We Have Google Drive at Home: Musings on Merkle-Tree Based File Sharing
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 scale,...
Read More - 7 min read
Advanced config.yaml
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 publishing platfor...
Read More - 3 min read
Announcing the Dolt Workbench Remotes Tab
Dolt Workbench now lets you set up remotes and sync databases by pulling and pushing changes.
Read More