Brian HendriksandTim Sehn

July 25, 2022

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...

Vinai Rachakonda

July 22, 2022

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...

Dhruv Sringari

July 20, 2022

Want a technical challenge? Find an open source database and change its storage engine. You'll have to rewrite hundreds if not thousands of functions, validate your changes against test suites, and continuously ru...

Liu Liu

July 18, 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. Dolt has Git-like functionality, includ...

Tim Sehn

July 15, 2022

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 us. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database , a Git database , Git for ...

Taylor Bantle

July 13, 2022

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git like features. On May 18th, we launched Hosted Dolt , a cloud-hosted Dolt database with built-in logs and monitoring. If you're not familiar with Hosted Dolt, here ...

Zach Musgrave

July 11, 2022

This is our annual update on how our customers are using Dolt, the world's first and only SQL database that you can branch and merge, fork and clone, push and pull just like a git repository. Last year's update included a lot more speculat...

Vinai Rachakonda

July 8, 2022

Introduction As an engineer working on Dolt, I spend most of my time working on the internals of a database system. Recently, I worked on using Dolt as a product to create a dataset that stored the entire Bitcoin blockchain's history. As I...

James Cor

July 6, 2022

Dolt is a version controlled database that combines the features of Git and functionality of MySQL. In this release, we added column statistics, getting us one step closer to MySQL's feature set. Our analyzer can utilize these statistics to improve...

Alec Stein

July 1, 2022

I analyzed 1835 hospital price lists so you didn't have to. But if you're a data scientist, you can do it too! This article was written in part for python-centric data scientists and programmers, and comes with a follow-along notebook where w...

Tim Sehn

June 30, 2022

Document databases like MongoDB rose to prominence because of their ability to store data in a hierarchical format like Javascript Object Notation, aka JSON . Some applications just make more sense when you persist the JSON your application is...

Jennifer Purevsuren

June 29, 2022

Looking for a way to manage versions and work with history of your structured data? Dolt is a version controlled relational database that combines the version control features of Git with the relational database features of MySQL. Today, we're…

Andy Arthur

June 27, 2022

Dolt is a next-generation SQL database with Git-like version control features. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff , merge , and sync . The core of Dolt's data model is a Merkle Tree index called a Prolly Tree. Proll...

Jason Fulghum

June 24, 2022

Intro Testing a database management system is a challenging endeavor for many reasons. DBMSs are large, complex applications with a lot of focus on code optimization and performance. SQL syntax is sprawling, with lots of dark corners, no lack...

Jennifer Purevsuren

June 22, 2022

Need version control on your existing database? Dolt is a SQL database that can replace your current database but gives you version control features just like Git. The easiest way to migrate a MySQL database is to dump and import to Dolt. We alw...

Dustin Brown

June 21, 2022

It's been six months since we launched DoltLab , the self-hosted version of DoltHub , and a lot has happened in this short amount of time. DoltLab is quickly becoming one of our most compelling product offerings, and we've seen customer i...

Alec Stein

June 17, 2022

Dolt is the first version controlled database in the world. It looks like a database, but can be branched, merged, and cloned like any Git repository. A year and a half ago we launched data bounties and used Dolt's cell-lineage features to ...

Alec Stein

June 14, 2022

Announcing the $10,000 museum collections bounty It’s the year of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. Which is also the promise of open data. For the museum-collections bounty we’re hoovering up collections data from museums everywhere...

Tim Sehn

June 13, 2022

Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data" . Dolt's original focus was implementing Git-style version control on tables instead of files to enable users to share data like they share code. DoltHub was a place on the internet to share Dol...

Max Hoffman

June 10, 2022

Dolt is a relational database that uses a custom storage layer and SQL engine to version data with Git-semantics. Every layer in the stack relies on thousands of tests to maintain MySQL compatibility and correctness. The surface area of MySQL and G...