- REFERENCE9 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
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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- FEATURE RELEASE4 min read
Announcing `dolt add --patch`
SQL and Git had a baby, and we named this bundle of joy Dolt . My last couple posts here on the blog have been about Git Workspaces and Dolt Workspaces , and that was to lay the groundwork for today's announcement: Dolt now supports add --...
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JSON Showdown: Dolt vs MySQL
UPDATE: The original version of this post accidentally used an outdated SQL client when benchmarking Dolt, which introduced additional latency. With the updated metrics, Dolt is even faster. The previous version of this post concluded that Dolt…...
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Correctness Update
Welcome back to another installment of Dolt's monthly correctness updates! If you missed it, here's last month's update . This month, we tackled several dolt-specific issues and make improvements to long-standing trouble areas. Dolt-Specifi...
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Dolt Rebase Conflict Resolution
Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. You can branch, merge, diff, and even rebase your relational data, in all the same ways Git allows you to manage your source code. Dolt's novel data storage layer enables a...
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How We Count Faster Than MySQL
Dolt is the first version controlled database with Git semantics. We often compare ourselves to MySQL because that was the first wire protocol we achieved drop-in compatibility with. But , with the release of Doltgres , we also have a Postgres…
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TablePlus Works with Doltgres
Doltgres is a SQL database with Git-style versioning, a Postgres version of Dolt . We've been working to make Doltgres compatible with PostgreSQL by supporting database workbenches such as TablePlus and DBeaver. Today, we share our progress of ...
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DoltHub Blog: Greatest Hits
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...
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Dolt runs on Diesel
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...
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Introducing Workspace Updates
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...
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Dolt for Data Engineers
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...
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Enhancing Index Support
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...
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Why I Threw Away Perfectly Good Code
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...
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The 4-chan Go programmer
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...
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Migrating from AWS QLDB to Dolt: a sorta example
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...
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Announcing Hosted Dolt Private Deployments
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...
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DoltHub On The Road
"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 ...
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So you Want Hosted MySQL?
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 ...
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Git Workspace Review
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...
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Announcing Fast Diffing and Merging of JSON Documents
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…
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Announcing the Dolt log graph
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 ...
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