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"Open Data" is quickly attaining the hype and ambiguity of previous tech crazes like "Big Data" and "Block Chain". The motivation behind Open Data is easy to understand: data is one of the most valuable but …

Introduction Dolt is Git for data. It's a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a Git repository. We're committed to supporting 100% of the functionality offered by Git…

Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database. For data science (DS) workflows, specifically, Dolt uses data versioning primitives to implement unique flavors of reproducibility. DataFrames are a common inter…

Should you use DoltHub Bounties for your data-wrangling needs? Our bounty partners wanted to assemble a “master” catalog of all the college courses taught in the United States. For them, it was an easy riddl…

Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt's SQL functionality is built on top of a SQL engine written in Golang. We've previously bl…

In the first part of this two part blog we covered concurrent connection handling within dolt sql-server. We learned about session state, how to commit changes, and how to persist those changes across sessio…

Update 2021-08-02: Dolt now supports SQL transactions with COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SAVEPOINT and the other MySQL transaction primitives, so it's now safe to run the SQL server out of the box with multiple readers an…

Today, we’re launching our 4th bounty. Our previous three on the Presidential Election, Hospital Pricing, and College Course Catalogs have been eminent successes, if I do say so myself. Bounties are a real…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. With each new version of Dolt, we increase the number of supported SQL features, moving toward our goal of being a complete drop-in replacement for MySQL, whi…

About a year ago, we wrote a blog post about how we thought people might use Dolt, the SQL database you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository. At the time we wrote it, we …

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Last week we released a new feature on our edit on the web roadmap: edit data using the SQL Console. About a year…

We finished our second data bounty Monday, March 1. The target of the bounty was hospital prices. The results surpassed our expectations. We built a database of 1,400 of approximately 6,000 US hospital's ch…

It's that time. Our February dataset spotlight here at DoltHub. For new folks, Dolt is a SQL database with git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. This monthly featu…

Dolt is Git for Data, the first SQL database you can clone, fork, branch and merge. Its SQL engine is go-mysql-server. Our goal is to be a 100% compatible, drop-in replacement for MySQL, but we have a ways…

As some of you are aware, we finished our first data bounty on Feb. 14 to collect US Presidential Precinct results for 2016 and 2020. On Feb. 15, we published a bounty review. The bounty review gained some dis…

It's time for another data bounty! We completed the US Presidential Election Precinct Results bounty and we have a week or so left in the Hospital Price Transparency bounty. For the next bounty, we want to …

Dolt Dolt is an SQL-database with Git-versioning. The goal of Doltpy, in concert with Dolt, is to solve reproducibility and versioning problems for data and machine learning engineers using Python. M…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. In a previous post we discussed the need to introduce Dolt CLI functions in SQL. We believe that version control is something that can be native to your SQL…

On December 14, we launched our first data bounty to earn a share of $25,000 by wrangling US Presidential Precinct-level data. The bounty ended yesterday. How did it go? This blog entry will answer that questi…

Background Earlier in the week we talked about Dolt's "API surface area." To recap, Dolt is a relational database with version control features. Dolt has a SQL query interface implementing the MySQL dialect…