- 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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- BOUNTY3 min read
A trillion prices
Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices On July 1, insurance companies started dumping an absurd amount of data onto the internet. No one appreciates the scale of it. I scraped the headers for hundreds of thousan...
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Hosted Backups
Hosted Dolt launched in May of this year. At launch, the product was very basic. You could go to https://hosted.doltdb.com and get a dolt sql server instance stood up in AWS in us-west-2. You would have access to logs, and metrics for your in...
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Finally Adding Collations
Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. After you install Dolt , all it takes are a few commands to have a running server: mkdir demo cd demo dolt init dolt sq...
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How to run DoltLab on Microsoft Azure
Earlier this week Fjellwang , a DoltLab user on our Discord server, was kind enough to share a document he wrote detailing how he deployed DoltLab in Microsoft Azure Cloud . Well, we liked his doc so much we decided to turn it's own blog ...
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Hosted DoltDB now comes with a SQL workbench
Hosted DoltDB now supports a DoltHub-like database UI that lets you browse your data.
Read More - TECHNICAL9 min read
Why We Chose Flatbuffers
Dolt is a versioned SQL database with Git-like functionality, including clone, push, pull, branch, merge and diff. It stores structured relational data on disk as tuples in Prolly trees and it serializes structured data like commits, tags and…...
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Getting Started with Dolt Permissions
Dolt is a MySQL compatible version controlled database . Most databases require account management and permissions. You don't want just anyone mucking around with your data. Released in February 2022 , Dolt supports the standard SQL permissions...
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Dolt + Turbine: Versioned Cancer Cell Simulations
Dolt is a version controlled database . How would you use such a thing? Does your business create data? How do you maintain and compare many copies of that data? Do the people that create the data make mistakes? What's the process to recover f...
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A single database for every museum: a retrospective
About DoltHub data bounties Anyone can build a database given enough time. But at DoltHub we build databases in a distributed way, using a unique database, Dolt , that works like Git . Dolt is cool because you can create branches, make...
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Migrating Dolt's Binary Format
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database . It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Over the past year, the team at DoltHub has been working on a new storage engine for Dolt. Earlier this summ...
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$12,000 US Housing Prices Bounty
Coming off the heels of our successful museum collections data bounty is a sequel to one of our flagship projects: tracking every single housing sale record in existence. The link to the latest bounty is here . If you've never heard of...
Read More - DOLTLAB5 min read
How to expose DoltLab with ngrok
ngrok is the programmable network edge that makes it easy to publish unreachable ports on the public internet. DoltLab is the self-hosted, self-managed version of DoltHub , where you can push your Dolt databases, collaborate on changes, mana...
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DoltHub comes to Seattle!
DoltHub has opened a new office in Seattle's University District. Customers, connections, and friends – come see us!
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So you want Database Versioning?
Understand database versioning definitions, methods, and tools. Outlines the business benefits of database versioning. Surveys database versioning products, including Dolt, the first version controlled SQL database.
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How We Benchmark Dolt
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Performance has been a major focus of Dolt development over the past year, and we've made substantial progress on th...
Read More - BOUNTY3 min read
Data, Deaths, and the Damn Prison System
Steal this (note)book If you want to reproduce the charts from this notebook, clone this repository which has everything you need including the CSV files. The data comes from DoltHub's jails data bounty . Check it out. The data analysis ...
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So you want Database Forks?
Learn what a database fork is, how to create a database fork, and the different tools that allow you to fork a database. Dolt is the ony MySQL compatible database that allows you to fork your database just like a Git repository.
Read More - FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB5 min read
DoltHub and DoltLab now support SQL uploads
Today we're excited to announce that DoltHub and DoltLab now support .sql file uploads. Prior to this change, users could only upload a .csv , .psv , .xlsx , or .json file using DoltHub and DoltLab's web UI. Although these are ...
Read More - INTEGRATION5 min read
Embedding Dolt in your Golang Application
Dolt is a version controlled database . When run as a server, Dolt is MySQL compatible, so you can connect to it with any MySQL tools or clients. Running Dolt as a server is perfect to back applications, just like you would with MySQL or Pos...
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Benchmarking Dolt's Import Performance
Introduction If you want to work with a database, you probably want to get some data into it first. At DoltHub, we've spent a good chunk of time working on our table import feature which lets you import CSV, JSON, XLSX, and Parquet data...
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