Tim Sehn

September 2, 2024

Here at DoltHub, we've published over 750 blog articles . That's a lot of content. Which blog articles should you read? This article lists the DoltHub blog's greatest hits. They are divided into helpful categories so you can get the lay of the la...

James Cor

August 30, 2024

Hello Rustaceans , welcome to the world of Dolt and Diesel! Dolt is a version controlled database that is a drop-in MySQL replacement. We've demonstrated Dolt's compatibility with a plethora of tools and ORMs . Diesel is an ORM and query bui...

Neil Macneale

August 29, 2024

A couple weeks ago I reviewed the Git Workspace, and I also covered how Dolt has the same feature. If you are unfamiliar with what the Workspace is, I suggest you read the review . Today, I'm pleased to annou...

Tim Sehn

August 28, 2024

Dolt is MySQL-compatible. When data engineers hear "MySQL", they think "this is not for me". Data engineers work with "Big Data" in databases like Databricks or Snowflake . MySQL is not for big data. In database parlance, Snowflake and Da...

Daylon Wilkins

August 27, 2024

We're continuing to make progress on DoltgreSQL , which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. For those that may not know about Dolt , it's built as a drop-in replacement for MySQL that is built, from the gro...

Nick Tobey

August 26, 2024

This blog post is inspired by the video essay This Problem Changes Your Perspective On Game Dev by Jonas Tyroller. As the title of the video suggests, Jonas is drawing from his own experience as a game developer, and so he approaches the v...

Zach Musgrave

August 23, 2024

Introduction We're using Go to write Dolt , the world's first version-controlled SQL database. Like most Go codebases, we use channels and goroutines to implement concurrent execution. Usually we use these constructs in the most borin...

Dustin Brown

August 22, 2024

Recently AWS announced that it was deprecating the Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) service by July 2025, and provided a guide for existing QLDB customers to migrate their QLDB data to PostgreSQL . Tim, DoltHub's CEO, addressed this deprec...

Aaron Son

August 21, 2024

Almost a month ago, we announced that Private Deployments were on their way . With the final development and testing completed, we're excited to announce that Private Deployments are now available for all Hosted Dolt users. In this short blog pos...

Tim Sehn

August 20, 2024

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility." -- Jack Kerouac. On the Road. Like Jack Kerouac, I write all my blogs ...

Tim Sehn

August 19, 2024

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 ...

Neil Macneale

August 16, 2024

Dolt has the DNA of Git within it, and one aspect of Git which I believe hasn't gotten enough attention is the workspace. The workspace is the place where you do your work. It's where you write code, make changes, and test things out. It's where yo...

Nick Tobey

August 15, 2024

There's no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to modeling data. Sometimes you want to use a file system. Sometimes you need a relational database. Other times you need a semi-structured file format, like JSON or flatbuffers. (Aside: we love…

Liu Liu

August 14, 2024

Last week, we discussed the implementation of commit graph on DoltHub . Today, we're excited to explore this topic further! We've recently launched two new commands in Dolt : dolt log --graph and dolt log --graph --oneline . The dolt ...

Zach Musgrave

August 13, 2024

Introduction We're hard at work building Doltgres , a Postgres-compatible database with git-inspired version control features. Doltgres is currently in alpha release, meaning lots of functionality doesn't work yet. We're committed to a be...

Tim Sehn

August 12, 2024

Recently, AWS announced they were no longer accepting new Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) users and the service would be deprecated in July 2025. What are you supposed to do if you are a QLDB user? AWS recommends migr...

Brian Hendriks

August 9, 2024

We are excited to announce that Hosted Dolt now supports creating clusters with a MySQL primary and a Dolt replica. This feature allows you to create a MySQL server that is replicated to a Dolt database. In this blog I'll walk you through how...

Jason Fulghum

August 8, 2024

Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database – you can branch/diff/fork/merge/rebase your data, in all the same ways that Git lets you work with source code files. Thanks to Dolt's custom storage engine , these operations to compu...

Liu Liu

August 7, 2024

In a previous blog , we announced the release of the DoltHub commit graph and briefly discussed its implementation. Since then, we have written and adopted our own commit graph npm package. This blog will walk you through the key aspects and…

Tim Sehn

August 6, 2024

Doltgres , the Postgres-flavored version of Dolt, the world's first and only version controlled SQL database , was released in Alpha in November 2023 . A Postgres-flavored version was our top customer ask . Demand doesn't seem to have waned ...