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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, ju…

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 C…

It's all broken! 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 s…

Branch Protection 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 funct…

Learn the difference between spreadsheet version history and spreadsheet version control. DoltHub comes with a spreadsheet editor or use Dolt database to add version control to Google Sheets or Excel.

We added a support ticket system to our Hosted DoltDB website using AWS Incident Manager.

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. dolt Last…

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 …

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 analyze…

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 …

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 per…

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 databa…

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 ind…

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…

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 …

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 offeri…

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 use…

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 colle…

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 …

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 cor…