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. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    Announcing the $10,000 US Businesses Bounty

    This guest blog post is by Spacelove, a top performer of several of our former bounties and winner of many thousands of dollars in prize money. He agreed to be the coordinator and judge for this new data bounty. Announcing the $10,000 US Bus...

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  2. GOLANG
    6 min read

    A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang

    Go is a great language. Really, it is! We complain about the rough edges, but on the whole it's been a great choice for us, and we're not sorry we picked it. But just for fun, let's talk about some of those rou...

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  3. 4 min read

    Faster than MySQL? An investigation

    Introduction At DoltHub, we are obsessed with Dolt's performance. In the past we've written about Sysbench , our primary benchmarking mechanism for comparing our performance to MySQL's. Every time we run a release of Dolt we run a CI-job th...

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  4. 6 min read

    Unleash the Fuzz

    Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With each new version of Dolt , we increase the number of supported SQL features. We're moving toward our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL, while adding all of the versio...

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  5. USE CASE
    5 min read

    Django and Dolt part II

    Back in June, we wrote about running Django on Dolt . We described our journey from Dolt as "Git for Data" to what we are today: a MySQL compatible relational database that is 99% SQL compliant . To fulfill our vision as a drop-in replacement f...

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  6. 6 min read

    A Poorman's Pachyderm: Do we need enterprise ML platforms?

    Developing machine learning infrastructure is a competitive new space. Machine learning operations (MLOps) promises to replace stodgy, manual scripts with automated and reproducible pipelines, unlocking priceless volumes of business value in the…

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  7. 5 min read

    Dolt and Images

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that uniquely supports version control operations such as branch, merge, and diff. Over the past couple of months, our customers have been asking us to support the loading and versioning of files, particularly…

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  8. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    Menus bounty retrospective

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with branch, merge and diff. DoltHub is a place on the internet to host, share and query Dolt databases. This blog is a retrospective on the menus bounty that launched on July 14th and wrapped on Au...

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  9. BOUNTY
    2 min read

    Announcing $10,000 US Schools Bounty

    It's time for another data bounty. Today, we're launching a $10,000 bounty to collect basic identifying data about schools in the United States. We seeded the database with California K through 12 Schools. Only 49 states (and the District of Columb...

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  10. PYTHON
    6 min read

    Open Source Patterns in Python

    About Dolt Web services make heavy use of versioning and open source sharing as a daily part of development. Production deployment is increasingly automated by AWS and other cloud services. Sandboxing, testing, and offline debuggability incre...

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  11. 3 min read

    Generational Garbage Collection

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that uniquely supports version control operations such as branch, merge, and diff. Aaron Son has blogged about how Dolt stores data in a prolly tree in order to support these operations efficiently ....

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  12. SQL
    2 min read

    Learn SQL Using Practice Dolt Databases

    Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-like versioning semantics. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Databases are notoriously unforgiving. We all know a person who accidentally ran a bad query in production and ...

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  13. SQL
    7 min read

    Indexing Keyless Tables

    Introduction Dolt is a new relational database with Git style versioning and offline debuggability. To be used as an application database, Dolt must be a drop in replacement for other SQL databases. We started with MySQL, the most frequently ...

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  14. SQL
    10 min read

    The Long, Dark Rewrite of the Soul

    Great art is never truly finished, only abandoned. And great, living software is the same way. It's never done, but always in a state of constant flux between additions and rewrites. Software engineers are a curmudgeonly sort, and sometimes we like...

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  15. WEB
    3 min read

    Edit on the Web Redux

    DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. About a year ago we set off on a journey to make adding and editing data on DoltHub possible. Our goal was to ease collaboration on data using Dolt and D...

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  16. 6 min read

    Is Dolt a Blockchain?

    From Dolt's inception, we shied away from blockchain hype. Dolt looks more like a traditional SQL database with Git-style features than something that could power a digital coin. Dolt is not targeting traditional blockchain use cases. But over t...

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  17. 10 min read

    Benchmarking SQL Reads on EBS and S3

    Recently, we conducted some quick and dirty read latency smell tests comparing reads against Amazon's EBS volumes to reads against Amazon's S3 . We ran these to test our hypothesis that a proposed infrastructure project would be a worthwhil...

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  18. WEB
    4 min read

    How the menus bounty broke DoltHub

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with branch, merge and diff. DoltHub is a place on the internet to host, share and query Dolt databases. If you’re just hearing about the menus bounty, here is menus launch blog. If you're new to data ...

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  19. USE CASE
    5 min read

    Dolt as an Immutable Database

    Dolt is Git for data. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. In a recent discussion with a potential customer, the customer thought we did not make a big enough deal of Dolt being immutable at a commit. If you provide the ...

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  20. REFERENCE
    4 min read

    An Overview of DoltHub Infrastructure

    DoltHub is our web application for working with, sharing and collaborating on Dolt databases. We host dolt remotes and run bounties on DoltHub, among other things. Sometimes when talking with customers or candidates, we get questions abo...

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