- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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