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. REFERENCE
    13 min read

    Anatomy of a Dolt Database

    While writing about how to tune Dolt for large databases , it dawned on me that we don't have documentation on the internal file structure of a Dolt database. What does Dolt look like on the inside? Let's dissect a database and find out. ...

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  2. GOLANG
    4 min read

    A Useful Pattern for Nil Channel Values in Go

    At DoltHub we're building Dolt , a SQL database that supports Git-like version control, including branch, merge, diff, clone, push, and pull. Dolt is written in Go. This post is part of a series of blog posts about programming in Go . I f...

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  3. SQL
    4 min read

    Automatic Statistics

    DoltDB is the first relational database that supports Git-like version control primitives like branch , diff , and merge . All our versioning features exist alongside full MySQL compatibility and near MySQL latency parity . The latest re...

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  4. 8 min read

    Dolt Corruption Challenge

    You want $1000? We want to give you $1000. A couple of weeks ago, we announced support of dolt fsck to allow our users to ensure that their Dolt database isn't corrupted. We're so confident in the data model that we're offering $1000 to...

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  5. WORKBENCH
    3 min read

    How to Publish a Mac Desktop App Outside the App Store

    In our previous blog , we covered the process of submitting an Electron app to the Mac App Store (MAS) . While MAS offers an official way to distribute your application, we also wanted to give users the option to download the app directly from ...

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  6. REFERENCE
    6 min read

    How to Make Dolt Work at Scale

    One of the first questions we get from the "Dolt curious" is "How does it scale?". We have a number of customers that run Dolt at scale, including Flock Safety and Turbine . For this article, I wanted to highlight a large public database so yo...

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  7. 11 min read

    Enterprise Git - The Amazon Story

    Dolt, the world's first SQL database supporting branching and merging, has a lot of similarities to Git. DoltHub currently has 15 people working on it , and a whopping 1/3 of us spent some amount of time in Amazon's Builder Tools organization....

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  8. FEATURE RELEASEWORKBENCHDOLTGRES
    2 min read

    The Dolt Workbench Now Supports Doltgres

    It's an eventful week for the Dolt Workbench . Yesterday we announced that the workbench is now available as a desktop application on both Mac and Windows . Today we're excited to announce that the Dolt Workbench now supports Doltgres ,...

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  9. WORKBENCH
    1 min read

    Dolt Workbench Electron App

    We're excited to announce the release of the Dolt Workbench Desktop app , now available for download! Dolt Workbench is a modern, open-source SQL workbench built for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Dolt-compatible databases. This desktop version simpli...

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  10. REFERENCEUSE CASE
    9 min read

    Dolt Use Cases

    We're building Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. Dolt lets you branch and merge your database tables just like you do with your Git files. When we tell people we built this technology, we get one of two responses: ...

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  11. DOLTGRES
    4 min read

    Is MySQL Dying?

    Here at DoltHub , like MariaDB and Oracle, we're in the MySQL business. We built a MySQL-compatible database, Dolt , that has all the version control features you know and love from Git. We made the decision to be MySQL-compatible back in 201...

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  12. INTEGRATION
    10 min read

    Using Dolt with JDBC

    Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database – you can branch, merge, diff, fork, revert, rebase, and clone your relational data using the same version control model and syntax as Git. Dolt is open source and built from the ground up t...

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  13. SQL
    5 min read

    Reducing Yacc Latency by 80%

    Dolt is the first relational database that supports Git-like versioning. Dolt's content-addressed storage layer plugs into two wire layers, MySQL and now Postgres ( DoltgreSQL ). While half of the team works on reaching 100% Postgres compatibil...

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  14. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Announcing `dolt fsck`

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database which enables users to branch and merge . Today, we're adding support for dolt fsck , following in a long tradition of fsck to protect against data corruption that goes back more than 40 years! A ...

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  15. TECHNICAL
    12 min read

    How we can Build a Vector Index from Prolly Trees

    Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database, built on Prolly Trees. Prolly Trees are the novel data structure that power's Dolt's unique storage layer, making it possible to manage multiple branches in a space-efficient way. Here at Dolthub, ...

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  16. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    Dolt for SOX Compliance

    In 2017 Snap Inc went public which meant that there was a rush to become Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliant. At that time I was the lead developer on the ad delivery team which was directly responsible for one of Snap's revenue streams. As a result I…...

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  17. GOLANG
    5 min read

    Reflecting on Go Reflection

    Dolt is a database with branching and merging written in Go, and this post is one our many Go related blog posts Despite my 20 plus years of writing code for a living, I've never been a programming languag...

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  18. DOLTLAB
    10 min read

    How to run DoltLab without egress

    DoltLab is the self-hosted version of DoltHub , a web-based remote for your Dolt databases. In recent weeks, we had a DoltLab customers reach out to us looking to run their DoltLab instances from within a closed, internal network where eg...

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  19. WORKBENCH
    7 min read

    How to Submit an Electron App to the Mac App Store

    We are excited to be nearing the release of the Dolt Workbench desktop application! If you're curious about how we built our desktop app, check out our previous blogs about building an Electron app and adding custom menus . When distribu...

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  20. USE CASE
    7 min read

    How to Restore a Dropped Database

    Dolt is the world's first version-controlled relational database. It gives you all the power of Git to branch , fork , merge , diff , and even rebase your relational data. When you use Dolt, you have confidence that your data is safe – e...

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