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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...
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Dolt Certs
In my last blog I talked about a lot of aspects of taking your Dolt database to production. One of the things I mentioned was the importance of securing your database, but didn't cover the acquisition and deployment of SSL certificates. In this blog ...
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Mydumper Works with Dolt
A demonstration, complete with sample code, on how to use Mydumper with Dolt, the world's first version controlled SQL database.
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Pull Request CI on DoltHub
We're excited to announce that CI testing on pull requests is now live on DoltHub.com.
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MySQL-9.0, Dolt, and Caching SHA-2 Auth Support
Dolt now supports caching_sha2_password auth, which you may need if you want to use the MySQL-9.0 innovation release.
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A Tour of config.yaml
Hot on the heels of my overview of Dolt configuration, I'm going to do a deep dive on config.yaml, the configuration file for a Dolt SQL Server. As I was writing the configuration overview, I realized our documentation on our main configuration file ...
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Decentralized Wikipedia Update
Dolt is a decentralized database. In the past ten years or so decentralization has gone through a few hype cycles. I think we're in a pro-decentralization hype period right now. Decentralization hype tracks the price of Bitcoin and last I checked, th...
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Doltgres System Tables Update
As Doltgres is being rapidly developed, we needed Postgres-specific solutions to certain version control features that are implemented in Dolt. This blog walks through how we converted MySQL-flavored system tables in Dolt to Postgres-flavored system tables that account for different schemas and types in Doltgres.
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What's Missing From Golang Generics?
Last time, I discussed a specific design problem that I encountered while writing generic code in Go, and how I eventually solved it. I was proud that I had found a solution, although less proud that it wasn't the cleanest. "I'm not proud of it. I a...
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Dolt Configuration
Dolt configuration is a bit of a mess. To start, it's a union of Git and MySQL styles of configuration. Then, Dolt specific configuration is sprinkled on top. It's been on our list for a long time to consolidate and rationalize Dolt configuration wit...
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Dolt SSL Authentication
Dolt is the world's first and only version controlled SQL database. Dolt is fully MySQL-compatible. You connect to it with any MySQL client. Some MySQL clients require connection authentication using Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS is often refer...
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Workbenches are Better with a Version Controlled Database
The Dolt Workbench illustrates how much better the workbench experience can be when using a version controlled database. Find out how and why in this blog.
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Using Perl to Query Dolt Databases
Perl is still alive and well and works beautifully with Dolt databases.
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Productionizing Dolt
So you've been using Dolt for a while, and you are ready to take the next step and use it in production. Whether you are running your production environment on prem, or in the cloud, there are several steps you should take to ensure that your Dolt da...
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History independence, what it is and why it matters
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. It's a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository. Like files in Git, tables and other data in Dolt are content-addressed by a cry...
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Balancing Perf Trade-offs
I ran into a performance trade-off last week attempting to improve long-running queries by changing the ways rows are structured. A more general row interface increases memory overhead but lets us skip encoding overhead. Unfortunately, joins create s...
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Are Golang Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study
"Go is an incomplete language masquerading as a simple one." 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: ...
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Designing CI on DoltHub
Get a glimpse into the design process for DoltHub's latest feature, continuous integration testing.
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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 collects so...
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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 Postgres. So ...
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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 also m...
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