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. VIDEO
    1 min read

    What Can You Do with a Version Control Database?

    Version Control your Existing Database One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing in...

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  2. SQL
    9 min read

    Dolt Diff Magic: Part 1 – The dolt_diff system table

    Here at DoltHub, we’re building Dolt DB – a new type of distributed, versioned database that gives you all the power and expressivity of a SQL relational database, combined with the ability to time travel through your data to understand exactly ...

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  3. USE CASE
    7 min read

    A Database of One's Own

    The software development world vs. the database admin world Why is the way we make changes to software so different from the way we make changes to databases? It's impossible not to notice. In one world we have source control and a whole…

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  4. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    So you Want an Immutable Database?

    Immutable databases offer history and audit to your database. Immutable databases are becoming a popular alternative to blockchain. No survey of the category exists. This blog attempts to explain what an immutable database is, why you might want to...

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  5. WEB
    9 min read

    Migrating our Monorepo to Yarn 2

    DoltHub is a web-based UI built in React to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We recently migrated our monorepo to Yarn 2 (or Yarn Modern). It took us some extra steps to make Yarn 2 work with our monorepo and other infras...

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  6. VIDEO
    1 min read

    Version Control your Database with Dolt

    One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is going to be very additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existing infrastructure. Once you have sto...

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  7. DOLTLAB
    12 min read

    Deploying a Production Ready DoltLab Instance, An Example

    This year we launched DoltLab the self-hosted version of DoltHub . In February, we released the latest version of DoltLab , version v0.2.0 , which included a number of features and bug fixes. We are actively working on DoltLab's next relea...

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  8. SQL
    2 min read

    Improving Dolt's First Hour Experience

    Introduction Dolt is on its way to becoming a production grade version-controlled MySQL database. Most developers associate "production grade" software with performance, but to us, it includes user experience (UX). Our current UX challenge is...

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  9. BOUNTY
    9 min read

    What did we learn from our housing prices home run?

    About this bounty For our latest bounty we've been pretty ambitious. We asked our community to go out and scrape as many housing sales records as they can find, and after the bounty finished, we topped out at 50 GB of sales data. That is a lo...

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  10. TECHNICALGOLANG
    8 min read

    Debugging strange http.Response Read() behavior in Golang

    With Dolt , you can push and pull a local MySQL compatible database to and from a remote. Remotes can be managed with the dolt remote CLI command and it supports many types of remotes . You can use a separate directory as a Dolt remote...

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  11. USE CASE
    4 min read

    Dolt for Military Applications

    If any of you are like me, you've been distracted for the past couple weeks with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This event has fundamentally changed the perspectives of many in the world. I foresee a bigger focus and investment on defense in the…...

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  12. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    US Housing Prices Bounty Retrospective

    US Housing Prices Bounty Retrospective A year ago we launched DoltHub data bounties . If you're unfamiliar, we use Dolt to create open databases that don't exist anywhere else on the internet. We use Dolt's cell ancestry capability to fi...

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  13. VIDEO
    1 min read

    Using Dolt with Tableplus

    About At DoltHub we are laser focused on improving Dolt's UX across the database stack. A key part of this is integrating with SQL Editors that offer an elegant SQL reading and writing experience. Below is a video that teaches you how to s...

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  14. SQL
    4 min read

    Eliminating SQL Engine Redundancies

    We aim to make Dolt 100% MySQL compliant, but we are also committed to making Dolt fast. My colleagues are hard at work adding new optimizations to our storage layer — inlining functions, minimizing memory allocations, dovetailing cache locality…

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  15. TECHNICALGOLANG
    10 min read

    Dolt Storage Layer Memory Optimizations and Pushing a 1TB Dolt Database

    Dolt is an open-source version-controlled database. It lets you push and pull databases just like you can push and pull source code with git. You can make changes on a local clone, commit, and then dolt push them to a remote with a single CLI ...

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  16. DOLTLAB
    8 min read

    DoltLab 101: Services Overview and 2022 Roadmap

    We launched our latest product DoltLab earlier this year to provide users who don't want to push their data to the public internet a self-hosted DoltHub . Since DoltLab's launch, we've been working to make deploying and operating DoltLab sm...

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  17. VIDEO
    1 min read

    Getting Started with Privileges Video

    We recently landed users and privileges in Dolt. This video shows how to get started using them in your own database! If you need any additional help to get set up, or just want to chat, head over to our Discord !

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  18. VIDEODOLTLAB
    1 min read

    Getting Started with DoltLab Video

    We recently launched our latest product DoltLab , the self-hosted version of DoltHub . In the announcement blog I detailed the instructions for getting up and running with DoltLab on a Linux host and today's video demonstrates just how qu...

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  19. WEB
    4 min read

    Lessons learned building mobile pages

    For those new to Dolt and DoltHub , Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. Just a bit of context We've been working on making DoltHub more mob...

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  20. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    $15,000 US Hospital Price Transparency Bounty

    At DoltHub we never like to go a day without a bounty. Having just wrapped up our US Housing Prices Bounty we announce without further ado... $15,0000 US Hospitals Bounty: "third time's the charm" If you haven't been following us, our ...

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