James Cor

November 9, 2022

If you haven't heard, Dolt is a version controlled database, kinda like if Git and MySQL had a baby. Not too long ago, we announced partial support for Spatial Data Types . Since then, we've received requests for the rest of the Spatial Types,...

Zach Musgrave

November 7, 2022

We're building Dolt , the world's first SQL database with Git-like version control . Recently, a customer contacted us to let us know that test symbols were making it into their binary when they took a dependency on our go-mysql-server l...

Max Hoffman

November 4, 2022

Explains how Dolt uses a memo data structure to optimize join plans.

Tim Sehn

November 3, 2022

Explains soft deletes in databases: what they are, why and how to use them. Introduces a new version controlled database concept where every delete is a soft delete.

Alec Stein

November 2, 2022

If you're like me you've spent a lot of the last two months thinking about how to parse huge JSON files. That's because some of the most valuable data in the world of healthcare is buried in them. These files are big (sometimes 100GB+) and ann...

Dhruv Sringari

November 1, 2022

DoltHub is the central repository for Dolt's version-controlled databases . We like to call it the Github of databases. It lets you query, share, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Last month, we brought Dolt's new storage format to DoltH...

Dustin Brown

October 31, 2022

In early October we released DoltHub Jobs , our latest backend change to DoltHub that lets DoltHub handle large, long-running write operations like file import and pull-request merge. We also recently released DoltLab v0.7.0 which include...

Alec Stein

October 28, 2022

DoltHub is building a database of hospitals and their chargemasters for Payless.Health . A complete list of URLs will help them build out their comprehensive search engine of hospital prices, spanning all 7,000+ hospitals in the US. Backgro...

Jennifer Purevsuren

October 26, 2022

Dolt is a version controlled relational database. It is a combination of Git and MySQL. We've received requests for an official Dolt Docker image from many customers who want to run Dolt in a container. We give our customers what they ask for, no...

Brian Hendriks

October 24, 2022

Dolt is a database like no other. Dolt is a version controlled MySQL compatible database . In Dolt both your data and schema are managed with a Git-like commit graph which allows you to do things that you can't do with any other database ...

Jason Fulghum

October 21, 2022

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git's distributed versioning features. It's the first relational database that versions your data changes AND your schema changes. Dolt allows you to branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone, diff a...

Aaron Son

October 19, 2022

Introducing standby replication for sql-server. Writes to a primary are replicated directly to standby servers, which can be easily promoted to primary to start accepting writes.

Tim Sehn

October 17, 2022

A survey of multiplayer databases. Explains what multiplayer software is and how to apply the concept to databases. List of multiplayer database options.

Zach Musgrave

October 14, 2022

Dolt DB is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. We built Dolt's storage engine from the ground up to make these operations fast. Writing a row storage engine an...

Alec Stein

October 13, 2022

This article is equal parts data repository , code repository , and notebook . The linked GitHub repo gives you the tools you need to reproduce this analysis or create your own. Last month I wrote about how insurance companies had p...

Jason Fulghum

October 10, 2022

Dolt DB is the world's first fully versioned SQL database. It combines the distributed versioning features of Git with the power and expressiveness of a relational database. In the same way the Git CLI allows you to branch, merge, diff, push, ...

Dustin Brown

October 7, 2022

Today we're excited to make two announcements, one for each of our web based platforms, DoltHub and DoltLab . For DoltHub, "Jobs", our term for long running asynchronous work, are now supported. Jobs can be kicked off by DoltHub users, or m...

Liu Liu

October 5, 2022

For those of you that are new, Dolt is a database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share and collaborate on Dolt databases. Recently, we released the ability to gener...

Andy Arthur

September 30, 2022

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database . It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. For the last year, we've been rewriting our storage engine to improve Dolt's performance and stability as a produ...

Tim Sehn

September 28, 2022

When should you commit? It's a question as old as time, dating back to the original init commit. But when should you make a Dolt commit? That's a much lighter weight decision. This blog will give you some ad...