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Whether due to clumsiness, physical damage, or malicious actors, the worst thing that can happen to your data is irretrievable loss. But this is a feature release, not a postmortem, and we are excited to ann…

A few months ago I got interviewed by a substack on open source development about Dolt. One of the questions I was glad to answer was what motivates me to contribute to Dolt. Well there's the money, obvious…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. For about a year we've been working on adding more ways to edit data on DoltHub. Edit like a spreadsheet has been one…

Dolt is a version controlled database. How would one use such a thing? Do you gather data from a bunch of sources? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects at ingestion or do defects manifest downs…

Today we are announcing that with the release of Dolt v0.30.0, both the Dolt CLI and DoltHub will initialize branch main instead of branch master. This change is backwards compatible, so using this Dolt versio…

demo blog image Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-like versioning semantics. Dolt is fast becoming a complete drop-in replacement for MySql. More specifically, this is what Dolt adds to a fami…

Last month we published the second blog in a series about running Django on Dolt. Using Dolt as an application-backing store is a new direction for the product. It represents a shift in thinking from "Dolt i…

TLDR We recently introduced a new Dolt feature: interacting with remotes from SQL server sessions. Dolt is a modern relational database that supports Git style fetch, pull, and push semantics. Although…

Our $10,000 US Schools bounty just completed. We assembled a cleaned, free database of US schools. Please use it and let us know what you think. How did we do? This bounty was a little strange because it…

Understand Database Version Control - definitions, methods, and tools. Add version control to your database schema and data. The Dolt database versions data and schema in a Git-like way.

DoltHub is a Next.js application written in Typescript and backed by a GraphQL server. We use Apollo's built-in integration with React to manage our GraphQL data within our React components. If you want to…

We all know that self-hosting a database is a challenging and daunting task. The hosting environment needs to have all the database's dependencies, must have the proper user/group permissions, and requires a s…

Having accurate information on where people live within a country is of critical importance to the function of that country's government. The United States constitution mandates that congress hold a census ev…

Dolt is an open-source SQL database that has Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, push and pull. As we attract more and more users with various use cases and ways of integrating Dolt into…

This guest blog post is by Spacelove, a top performer of several of our former bounties and winner of many thousands of dollars in prize money. He agreed to be the coordinator and judge for this new data bount…

Go is a great language. Really, it is! We complain about the rough edges, but on the whole it's been a great choice for us, and we're not sorry we picked it. go is a great language... but But just for …

Introduction At DoltHub, we are obsessed with Dolt's performance. In the past we've written about Sysbench, our primary benchmarking mechanism for comparing our performance to MySQL's. Every time we run a …

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

Back in June, we wrote about running Django on Dolt. We described our journey from Dolt as "Git for Data" to what we are today: a MySQL compatible relational database that is 99% SQL compliant. To fulfill o…

Developing machine learning infrastructure is a competitive new space. Machine learning operations (MLOps) promises to replace stodgy, manual scripts with automated and reproducible pipelines, unlocking pric…