1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    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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  1. FEATURE RELEASE
    10 min read

    Dolt Reflog

    DoltDB is the world's first fully-versioned relational database . You can branch, merge, diff, push, and pull your relational data in the same ways that Git allows you to work with your source code files. We're passionate about making Dolt t...

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  2. SQL
    7 min read

    Costing Index Scans

    Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database . We have made many correctness and performance improvements over the last couple of years. But one of the things we have never been good at are queries that need to adapt to underlying table d...

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  3. INTEGRATION
    15 min read

    Hibernate on Dolt, A Sample App

    Dolt is the world's first version controlled Database . I've been building software for more than 20 years, and building on top of Dolt makes application development fun again. As I built a little application us...

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  4. TECHNICAL
    7 min read

    Getting stack traces for errors in Go

    Introduction This blog is part of our ongoing Go language blog series . We publish a new article in the series every three weeks. We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database . This blog is about different ...

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  5. WEB
    6 min read

    Building Single Sign-On for your Web Application

    We recently released single sign-on (SSO) for two of our web products, Hosted Dolt and DoltLab Enterprise . Administrators can configure an Identity Provider (IdP), where their users can authenticate and authorize access to their organization ...

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  6. SQL
    7 min read

    Sensible User Privileges and Dolt Procedures

    Here at DoltHub we love fixing customer problems. We have a goal to fix every bug our customers report within 24hrs. It's one of the reasons we release new builds all the time, for instance, three this week! It would be irresponsible for us to...

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  7. RELEASE
    4 min read

    Virtual column support in Dolt

    Introduction We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database. Dolt advertises itself as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so if your current application works on MySQL you can swap in Dolt on the backend with no code c...

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  8. RELEASEDOLTGRES
    3 min read

    Announcing DoltgreSQL

    We are pleased to announce that we have started development on DoltgreSQL ! Dolt has grown significantly over the past few years, however it uses MySQL's syntax. Many users have asked us if we would support PostgreSQL's syntax, and we are fina...

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  9. FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB
    6 min read

    Announcing DoltLab Enterprise Edition

    We launched DoltLab , the self-hosted version of DoltHub.com back in January 2022 as a way to support users who wanted to harness the power of Dolt, but not push their data to the public internet. From that point on, we've consistently impr...

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  10. REFERENCE
    10 min read

    AUTO_INCREMENT vs UUID Primary Keys

    Dolt is the first and only version controlled SQL database . Dolt supports branches, merges, and clones. Astute Dolt users have long noticed that Dolt branches and clones do not play well with AUTO_INCREMENT primary keys. The Dolt recommende...

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  11. REFERENCE
    15 min read

    Getting Started: Dolt with Docker

    For a long time, Dolt resisted Docker . Here at DoltHub , we take a lot of pride in the fact that Dolt is a single program with no external dependencies. To use Dolt, you simply download the current build for your operating system, put th...

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  12. SQL
    12 min read

    Transactions in Dolt? Hold My Beer

    Here at DoltHub, we strive to ensure the Dolt database can be a drop in replacement for MySQL . We've written a lot about this , and this particular post continues this tradition. The tool of this round is called FusionAuth , which is a...

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  13. GOLANG
    10 min read

    They're called Slices because they have Sharp Edges: Even More Go Pitfalls

    On my last Golang post , I suggested that the main source of confusion in Golang is the fact that the language presents itself as a C-like object oriented language, and dresses itself in C-like syntax, while differing from C-like languages in…

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  14. FEATURE RELEASE
    6 min read

    Recovering Dropped Databases with dolt_undrop()

    DoltDB is the world's first fully-versioned relational database. It gives you the versioning semantics of Git with all the power and expressiveness of SQL. One of Dolt's greatest strengths is keeping your data safe. You can trace how every bit...

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  15. FEATURE RELEASEWEB
    3 min read

    Pull Request Diff Comments

    DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We're committed to making data collaboration seamless and effective for you, which is why we're excited to share an exciting addition to our pull request...

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  16. 9 min read

    A bug in MySQL, or working as intended? You decide

    Introduction We're writing Dolt , the world's first version controlled SQL database. Dolt advertises itself as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so if your current application works on MySQL you can swap in Dolt on the backend with no code c...

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  17. SQL
    17 min read

    Four 9's of Correctness

    sqllogictests is a collection of around 6 million sql correctness tests, designed to be used a as benchmark for SQL engine implementations. Although sqllogictests was made by the sqlite team, it can check for compatibility with several differ...

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  18. SQL
    6 min read

    Why SQL?

    In the mid-2000s SQL was having a rough time. NoSQL was all the rage. A chorus of senior engineers shouted: "SQL doesn't scale." "Oracle...Microsoft...waaaaaah! "DBAs are expensive and get in developer's way" "$10,000 per core for a...

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  19. SQLFEATURE RELEASE
    5 min read

    How to Use Lateral Joins

    Dolt is the first SQL database that versions data with Git semantics. Using Dolt is as easy as downloading the binary , picking a directory for your data ( mydb ), running dolt sql-server , and using a MySQL client to connect mysql -h 0.0.0....

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  20. FEATURE RELEASEHOSTED
    11 min read

    Replication Updates

    Dolt supports three types of replication : Remote-based replication launched October 2021 Standby replication launched October 2022 Replicate from MySQL to Dolt launched February 2023 Hosted Dolt launched read replicas in...

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