Brian Fitzgerald

June 9, 2022

Fix Dolt Issues In this video, we show you how to start contributing to our open-source database, Dolt . We love when people start helping with any of our open issues. Check out the ones labeled Good First Issue as a place to get star...

Mario Lopez

June 8, 2022

Adding featured images to links shared on social media is a great way to drive website traffic. An image is worth 1,000 clever titles. If you're lucky, you could even go viral with the right picture. But the adding featured images with Gatsby can b...

Brian Hendriks

June 6, 2022

Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git like features. Until recently, if you wanted to run Dolt as your OLTP database you had to stand up your own instances deployed with the Dolt binary, and then handle all your own monitoring, alert...

Brian Fitzgerald

June 3, 2022

Where's the Free Data? The DoltHub team has been hard at work making it easier to find open data on DoltHub . In this video, we show where to find free data on DoltHub. You can also now see how active these databases are with the number ...

Andy Arthur

June 3, 2022

If you haven't heard by now, Dolt is a version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database you can diff, branch, and merge. Dolt was engineered from the ground-up to support efficient versioning, which is made possible by its novel indexing ...

Vinai Rachakonda

June 1, 2022

Dolt is Git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull just like a git repository. After studying the Web3 data ecosystem here , we've become fascinated with blockchain data and how to anal...

Alec Stein

May 31, 2022

How hospitals price-gouged insurance companies during the COVID-19 pandemic What happens when your insurance company gets a price that it can't refuse? And how can this even happen? Aren't insurance companies notorious for turning down hos...

Tim Sehn

May 27, 2022

The term "decentralized" is mentioned more and more lately . There's been a 3-4X increase in google searches for the term since 2017 before which searches were relatively constant. What is a Decentralized Database...

Brian Fitzgerald

May 27, 2022

How to get Data off DoltHub with out Dolt In this video, we show you the different ways you can download data from a Dolt database on DoltHub. On DoltHub, you can download the most current version of the database or any past version by goi...

Dustin Brown

May 25, 2022

Chances are you've heard us say that Dolt is "Git for data". For those who don't know, Dolt is a versioned SQL database with Git-style cloning, branching, merging, and diffing. Since Dolt's inception in 2018, we've pushed this analogy even furth...

Vinai Rachakonda

May 23, 2022

Introduction Dolt is a decentralized database . Dolt uses the Git protocol of decentralization with SQL database tables. Anyone can clone a Dolt database and make reads and writes offline. When that person is ready to share her changes, she...

Andy Arthur

May 20, 2022

In the beginning, there was Noms . The creation of Aaron Boodman and Attic Labs, Noms introduced Prolly Trees, a novel search index structure that supports diff, merge and sync operations. Noms development has since been halted, but its contri...

Brian Fitzgerald

May 20, 2022

Hosted Dolt If you missed the news , Hosted Dolt is here! We'll provision CPU, memory, and disk in a cloud and region of your choice and run a Dolt database for you. We'll handle monitoring and lo...

Tim Sehn

May 18, 2022

Hosted Dolt is here! We'll provision CPU, memory, and disk in a cloud and region of your choice and run a Dolt database for you. We'll handle monitoring and logging. In the future, we'll handle backup, replic...

Jason Fulghum

May 16, 2022

Welcome back to the third post in this series exploring the tricks you can do with Dolt's magical versioning features! 🪄 In the first post of this series , we explored how the dolt_diff system table enables you to see what tables have chan...

Brian Fitzgerald

May 13, 2022

Dolt is the database for dummies Our CEO, Tim Sehn, recently wrote a blog about why Dolt is the database for dummies . In this video, we show off the features that make working with a Dolt database foolproof. You get copy/paste, undo, an...

Zach Musgrave

May 13, 2022

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Tim Sehn

May 11, 2022

Why name a product Dolt? We get asked all the time . It's named dolt to pay homage to how Linus Torvalds named git : Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means "unpleasant person" in British English slang): "I'm ...

Dustin Brown

May 9, 2022

Hello DoltLabbers! Today's blog will be a quick-start guide, showing you how to monitor your DoltLab instance with Prometheus . We recently released DoltLab v0.4.2 that adds support for DoltLab users requiring implicit TLS connections ...

Alec Stein

May 6, 2022

One of the most expensive hospitals in America may actually be a nonprofit. Insurers pay the hospital, Mary Lanning Healthcare in Nebraska, an average of $200,000 for a particular neurosurgery. However, drive less than hour West to Kearney Regional...