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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 …

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 …

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 comp…

Decentralized software is offline first, sharable, fault tolerant, and trustless. Blockchains are a type of decentralized database but not the only option. Learn about different decentralized models and your c…

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 da…

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, …

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 …

Hosted Dolt If you missed the news, Hosted Dolt is here! Hosted Dolt Logo 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 monit…

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 ha…

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 enable…

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…

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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 B…

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 requiri…

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 …

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Today's blog is a quick how-to guide aimed at helping others provision and actually use more than 2TBs of disk on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04. I never planned on writing this blog, but experiencing the surprisi…

Introduction Dolt is git for data, the world's only SQL database that you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull just like a git repository. It's like Git and MySQL had a baby. Being nati…

In my last blog post, I went over how we initially implemented foreign keys on our database—Dolt, which fuses a fully MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities—and how our first decisi…