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Dolt is the only version controlled relational database. Like if MySQL and Git had a baby, this baby also inherited the trauma of both parents. Today we will be talking about the SQL half. Our users send …

Last year I wrote about how much new health insurance data spilled onto the web (petabytes). It turned out that for practical purposes most of the rates could probably be discarded, with the usable fraction pr…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. One of our more popular use cases is assembling large datasets with an army of volunteers, like with our medical pricing bounties. The …

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database with Git-like features. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt. Hosted DoltDB is AWS RDS for Dolt. Both DoltHub and Hosted come with a UI to help visualize data and track changes, wh…

We have new mode to run Dolt in! The Versioned MySQL Replica. In this mode, you set up Dolt to replicate a primary MySQL. Set up can take as as little as three commands. After set up, Dolt replicates every …

Here at DoltHub, we're big fans of Golang. We built DoltDB, the first fully versioned SQL relational database, entirely on a Golang stack, and we use Go for all the services that power DoltHub, too. This post …

At DoltHub, we write a lot of blogs. Each week our team publishes three to four blogs on various topics. Some recent blogs include our ongoing effort to publish Hospital Price Data in a single, coherent databa…

General release of a new persistence layer for Dolt

I announced a few months ago that we were planning to make hospital prices accessible in a single, public, freely-accessible database, giving the public access to secret negotiations insurers have with hospita…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database; think Git and MySQL had a baby. Just over a year ago, we began our spatial journey with the addition of Spatial Types. We closed that gap about three months ago whe…

A survey of products offering Change Data Capture. This article will explain what Change Data Capture is, how it works, and why you would use it.

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like features that allow for version control of data. Last year we launched Hosted DoltDB, a hosted platform for Dolt databases that offers a streamlined user experience and e…

We are excited to announce the release of the new DoltHub API, designed to make it easier to manage and collaborate on databases programmatically. The DoltHub API offers a range of features that can help strea…

Last week a complaint from a gopher about his coworkers bringing Java conventions to a Golang codebase made a minor splash on Reddit. Their complaints: All context.Context are currently being stored as f…

ChatGPT is all the rage. I asked ChatGPT if you could raise money if you haven't blogged about it and I did not agree with the response. Can't raise I may need to raise money again. So, here we go. I …

Dolt Binlog Replication Preview Today, we are excited to announce Dolt's support for replicating from a MySQL binlog! This initial support allows a Dolt sql-server to configure a MySQL or MariaDB instance a…

Hospital lab tests are commodities: a test is a test is a test. So how can end up with a $8,500 mole biopsy or a $28,000 strep throat cell culture? Many investigations raise this question but stop short of ans…

A couple weeks ago I wrote about how to use Dolt with Apache Superset. Dolt provides powerful versioning features to Superset charts and dashboards. Dolt "just works" with Superset using the MySQL connector so…

Dolt is a version controlled MySQL-compatible database, written from the ground up in Go. We're always working to close the remaining gap on full compatibility with MySQL. In this blog post, we're talking abou…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database that you can branch and merge, push and pull, fork and clone just like a git repository. A lot of people, when they hear about this, say "that's really cool, but what …