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If you haven't heard, DoltHub is building a database. Dolt is the only SQL database you can branch, merge, diff and clone. It's a MySQL compatible database with version control. As Dolt matures into a fully…

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, and merge. In previous posts we've discussed the implementation of joins with primitives such as join planning and index accesses. We've taken another…

DoltHub is a web-based UI to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We use Figma, a popular collaborative interface design tool, to work with our designer Jan on designs for our website. Bef…

A little over a year ago I blogged about publishing the FBI NIBRS Crime Data on DoltHub. In that blog, I describe the dataset the FBI publishes and discuss some of the challenges of working with large amounts …

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 the US Businesses d…

It's that time again. We just finished the US businesses bounty so it's time for a new bounty. We are launching a $10,000 bounty to build SHAQ. Shared Hoops Database for Accessible Querying. Shaq! …

Here at DoltHub, we write a lot of software in Go. We've previously blogged a little bit about error handling and errgroup in particular, but today I wanted to share two patterns regarding errgroups that ca…

Dolt is a version controlled database. In order to offer full, robust, Git-style version control for both schema and data, Dolt makes some performance trade offs. Each write needs to be stored to disk and hash…

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a git repository. Its storage engine is built from the ground up to make these operations possible, but over the wire it s…

Finding Dolt Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is the only database that offers complete Git versioning for data. Dolt databases are MySQL compliant but can be created and edited locally, replicat…

TL;DR: Today we're excited to introduce read replication for Dolt! Read replication is a common way to scale read-heavy applications by copying data from a source server to replicas. Setting DOLT_REPLICAT…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. The source code for DoltHub is private, and we recently decided to make a public repository for DoltHub issues while…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database — a database where users and their applications can branch, merge, push, pull and clone the value of their database. It works on a similar model to git, where…

Greetings! Today we are excited to share that we now publish Dolt releases on both winget and Chocolatey, making Dolt even easier to install for our Windows users. Prior to this, Windows users had to visit Dol…

The genesis for DoltHub the company was a persistent question starting in 2013. Why is there no place on the internet to get access to interesting, maintained data? DoltHub's thesis was adding branch/merge to …

Whether due to clumsiness, physical damage, or malicious actors, the worst thing that can happen to your data is irretrievable loss. But this is a feature release, not a postmortem, and we are excited to ann…

A few months ago I got interviewed by a substack on open source development about Dolt. One of the questions I was glad to answer was what motivates me to contribute to Dolt. Well there's the money, obvious…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. For about a year we've been working on adding more ways to edit data on DoltHub. Edit like a spreadsheet has been one…

Dolt is a version controlled database. How would one use such a thing? Do you gather data from a bunch of sources? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects at ingestion or do defects manifest downs…

Today we are announcing that with the release of Dolt v0.30.0, both the Dolt CLI and DoltHub will initialize branch main instead of branch master. This change is backwards compatible, so using this Dolt versio…