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. TECHNICAL
    8 min read

    Debugging Dolt's SQL Analyzer

    I'm new to Dolt, both as a user and as an employee. Since I'm new here, I suppose I should introduce myself. I'm Neil 👋. You can look at my history on LinkedIn, but what matters is that I'd describe myself as developer obsessed. I've spent ...

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  2. FEATURE RELEASE
    6 min read

    Introducing DOLT_PATCH()

    Dolt is a version controlled relational database that is a combination of the version control features of Git and the relational database features of MySQL. Today, we announce another new feature, the DOLT_PATCH() table function . This featu...

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  3. BOUNTY
    5 min read

    Price transparency is broken

    Last year I wrote about how much new health insurance data spilled onto the web ( petabytes ). It turned out that for practical purposes most of the rates could probably be discarded , with the usable fraction probably being less than 10%. Bu...

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  4. SQL
    14 min read

    Debugging Slow SQL Queries

    Dolt is the only version controlled relational database. Like if MySQL and Git had a baby, this baby also inherited the trauma of both parents. Today we will be talking about the SQL half. Our users send us increasingly complicated queries in ne...

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  5. TECHNICAL
    4 min read

    DoltHub goes to PyData NYC

    Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. One of our more popular use cases is assembling large datasets with an army of volunteers, like with our medical pricing bounties . The same people who care about these larg...

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  6. HOSTED
    7 min read

    Comparing DoltHub and the Hosted SQL Workbench

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git-like features. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. Hosted DoltDB is AWS RDS for Dolt. Both DoltHub and Hosted come with a UI to help visualize data and track changes, while also providing seamless ...

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  7. REFERENCE
    23 min read

    Getting Started: Versioned MySQL Replica

    We have new mode to run Dolt in! The Versioned MySQL Replica. In this mode, you set up Dolt to replicate a primary MySQL. Set up can take as as little as three commands. After set up, Dolt replicates every write to your primary to Dolt and cr...

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  8. GOLANG
    8 min read

    Real World Golang Concurrency Examples

    Here at DoltHub, we're big fans of Golang. We built DoltDB , the first fully versioned SQL relational database, entirely on a Golang stack, and we use Go for all the services that power DoltHub , too. This post is a continuation of our series o...

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  9. 8 min read

    Caching Gatsby builds with Docker in GitHub Actions

    At DoltHub , we write a lot of blogs. Each week our team publishes three to four blogs on various topics. Some recent blogs include our ongoing effort to publish Hospital Price Data in a single, coherent database , the release of Dolt v0.75.0...

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  10. TECHNICAL
    4 min read

    Journaling Chunk Store

    Today's blog is announcing the 0.75.0 release of Dolt. With it comes the general release of Dolt's Chunk Journal, a new ACID-compliant persistence layer that is both faster and more reliable than our existing store. Over the last few years, Dolt...

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  11. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    Hospital data for all: Part I

    I announced a few months ago that we were planning to make hospital prices accessible in a single, public, freely-accessible database, giving the public access to secret negotiations insurers have with hospitals. We’ll capture these rates in two...

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  12. FEATURE RELEASESQL
    9 min read

    Dolt Supports Spatial Indexes

    Dolt is a version controlled SQL database; think Git and MySQL had a baby. Just over a year ago, we began our spatial journey with the addition of Spatial Types . We closed that gap about three months ago when we announced the support of Mult...

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  13. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    So you want Change Data Capture?

    Here at DoltHub we just launched versioned MySQL replication . Dolt is a version controlled database and you can now replicate to Dolt from your production MySQL. This new Dolt deployment mode has it competing in a new product categor...

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  14. HOSTEDFEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    Hosted DoltDB on Google Cloud Platform

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB , a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful databa...

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  15. WEBFEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Automate Your Database Workflow with the New DoltHub API

    We are excited to announce the release of the new DoltHub API, designed to make it easier to manage and collaborate on databases programmatically. The DoltHub API offers a range of features that can help streamline your work and improve produ...

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  16. 7 min read

    Type embedding: Golang's fake inheritance

    Last week a complaint from a gopher about his coworkers bringing Java conventions to a Golang codebase made a minor splash on Reddit. Their complaints: All context.Context are currently being stored as fields in structs. All sync.Wai...

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  17. 15 min read

    Exploring NanoGPT

    ChatGPT is all the rage. I asked ChatGPT if you could raise money if you haven't blogged about it and I did not agree with the response. I may need to raise money again. So, here we go. I was inspired by ...

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  18. FEATURE RELEASE
    8 min read

    Dolt Binlog Replication Preview

    Dolt Binlog Replication Preview Today, we are excited to announce Dolt's support for replicating from a MySQL binlog ! This initial support allows a Dolt sql-server to configure a MySQL or MariaDB instance as its replication source, connect...

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  19. BOUNTY
    4 min read

    Open source lab test pricing data, and why prices vary so much

    Hospital lab tests are commodities: a test is a test is a test. So how can end up with a $8,500 mole biopsy or a $28,000 strep throat cell culture ? Many investigations raise this question but stop short of answering it. We dug into this qu...

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  20. USE CASEREFERENCE
    8 min read

    Dolt + Looker Studio

    A couple weeks ago I wrote about how to use Dolt with Apache Superset . Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Superset charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Superset using the MySQL connector so it's really easy to get start...

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