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Dolt is close to 100% MySQL compatible and only 2x slower than MySQL. Few customers find bugs that we cannot fix in under 24 hours, and the difference between a 10ms query in Dolt that is 5ms in MySQL is usu…

In November 2023, we officially started development on DoltgreSQL, which is a version of Dolt built to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. For those that may not know, Dolt is the world's first database …

Hosted Dolt now supports more advanced replication workflows from the web UI, such as resizing your deployment, upgrading to a larger instance, and restarting a stopped deployment.

A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Rails app using a Dolt database.

In Go, tags allow developers to attach metadata to struct fields. These tags can drive features and behaviors in various libraries and tools which access the tags via reflection. This article provides an over…

Recently, a customer reached out to our team asking for a blog using Dolt with Testcontainers, "an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browse…

In this blog we try out Go's new profile-guided build optimizations on Dolt's SQL benchmarks and share the results

A detailed guide, complete with sample code, on how to get started writing a version controlled Django app using a Dolt database.

Dolt is a versioned database that has a mix of Git and MySQL features. One of our goals is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. As a result, we need to support all the functions MySQL does; these are thing…

In this tutorial, learn how to define views in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples

A customer wanted to use Metabase to visualize Dolt databases. Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Metabase charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Metabase using the MySQL connector so it's re…

Dolt is the first relational database with history independent version control. Dolt's Git-like commit graph captures snapshots in a format that efficiently diffs and merges tables and schemas. We recentl…

Two versions of a table with different schema can sometimes share storage in Dolt. Learn about when a schema change causes a full rewrite of the table data and when it can incrementally share storage with past…

In this tutorial, learn how to define stored procedures in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples

The flexibility of JSON is useful even within SQL databases. Dolt now makes merging concurrent changes to JSON documents easy.

Go 1.22 is expected to be released next month; in this blog post, we dig into the latest release candidate and explore what's new

How to write a version-controlled application using DoltDB

We're on a mission to show that Dolt works with all your favorite tools in all your favorite languages. Today we head to PHP-land and show you how to integrate Dolt with Laravel, a popular website builder with…

Upcoming improvements to the Dolt CLI

Dolt now supports interactive rebases, giving you a powerful and easy to use way to edit your commit history.