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Dolt is the first fully version controlled relational database. Every Git command is exposed as a SQL function, allowing users to efficiently branch, diff, and merge tables. We recently added anti and sem…

Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. People have found many creative uses for Dolt, but there's one area that Dolt has yet …

Recently, I came across this Reddit post going over how they manage database versioning. I was particularly interested in this response Reddit Response To be fair it is really strong process for tracking…

A customer wanted to use Apache Superset to visualize Dolt databases. This customer runs DoltLab and intends to version hundreds of databases there. He wants a subset of those databases available to Superset f…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database that you can branch, merge, and diff. Dolt stores data in a prolly tree to efficiently support these operations, which can come with write overhead and use a lot of…

Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. Dolt uses Git semantics to branch and commit state checkpoints, and MySQL semantics to define, mutate, and access data. We've optimized a variety of perf…

Last June, I published a Getting Started: Version Controlled Database blog that quickly became Dolt's GitHub README. As I say in that blog: Dolt started as a data sharing tool, "Git for Data". Dolt's origin…

Imagine, for a moment, that both code and data were not constrained to the present. With a "standard" database, your data lives only in the present. Sure, with backups you're able to recall the past, but to …

On its face, it's hundreds of terabytes, millions of files, and trillions of negotiated rates between insurers and providers. But the health insurance data dump is probably smaller than it seems. Back in Ju…

Dolt is the world's first SQL database with Git-style version control. We spent the first part of 2022 working on our performance, in large part by re-writing the storage engine. In October, we were lucky e…

Beta release of ACID transactions in Dolt

Adding version control functionality to Retool apps

A survey of the data merge space. Data merge in not mail merge. New tools exists to merge two tables at scale. This is true data merge.

For those who are unfamiliar with Dolt, it is a version controlled SQL database. If you know what GitHub and MySQL are, you already know how to use Dolt! We have been improving our compatibility with MySQL eve…

A release of a new golang package for hashing generic types.

DoltDB is a MySQL-compatible database with Git's distributed versioning features. It's the first relational database that versions your data changes AND your schema changes. Today's blog post is a teaser for a…

It's 2022, and the version control wars are conclusively over. Everybody uses git, but hardly anybody really understands it, and even fewer truly love it. git is hard to use I think these last two poin…

DoltHub is the place to share Dolt's version controlled databases. Last month, we created a migrate button that automatically migrates your Dolt databases to the latest storage format. We've since migrated …

If you haven't heard, Dolt is a SQL database with Git versioning. A couple of months ago, a customer asked for prefix indexes, so we implemented them. In this blog, we'll discuss how to use prefix indexes, t…

Here at DoltHub, our centerpiece is Dolt, which fuses a MySQL-compatible database with Git-style versioning capabilities. After you install Dolt, all it takes are a few commands to have a running server: m…