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Any frequent visitor to DoltHub knows we publish a lot of blog posts. How many? Three per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Everyone at the company writes them. Why do we do that? This blog post will answer…

When we began working on Dolt in 2018 we leveraged Noms, an open source project that gave us efficient diff and merge capabilities. The company that had built Noms, Attic Labs, pitched it to developers as a …

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. One of our biggest priorities is ensuring that Dolt is a drop in replacement for any MySQL database. That means any query that can be run on a MySQL database m…

Hi, I'm New Here So for those of you that are new here too and I hope there are many of you, Dolt is a database with Git-like features. In Marvel terms, we took your standard base and gave it superpowers. …

Introduction We will learn how to version control Google Sheets data using Dolt and GitHub Actions today. This is intended for teams who might benefit from a Pull-Request process for managing Google Sheet…

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, and merge. Those are the features you won't find in any other SQL database. But what about the features you can find in any other dat…

Introduction We are pleased to introduce a Kedro-Dolt plugin, a collaboration between Quantum Black Labs and DoltHub designed to expand the data versioning abilities of data scientists and engineers. You…

Background An explosion of data driven products and business processes is creating an urgent need for best practices to ensure data reaching end users is high quality. This data could be in the form of mach…

Aaron, Brian and I founded DoltHub as Liquidata in 2018. Our mission was to add liquidity to the data market. How could we get more data shared? Our main hypothesis was adding branch/merge functionality as in …

DoltHub was started in 2018 to create a place on the internet to access interesting, maintained data. That vision drove us to build Dolt, a versioned, syncable data format. It's "Git for Data". This year we…

DoltHub has an office again. We're here on 2nd street in downtown Santa Monica. Whether or not to return to the office seems to be a topic of interest in the technology community. This blog entry is our take o…

Introduction Dolt and Flyte joined forces to build two data integrations. Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git Versioning. Flyte is a workflow orchestrator for creating and evolving machine learning …

Last Wednesday, May 27, we completed our fifth data bounty and first V2 bounty. The focus of the bounty was US hospital prices. We had run a bounty for hospital prices that ended March 1. We loved the results …

PDAP are early Dolt adopters. Their open data mission aligns with DoltHub's and we're sponsoring a bounty to help get their project off the ground. This post goes through the mission, the bounty and ways you c…

One of my favorite things about DoltHub is that users can navigate to any public database it hosts and run real time SQL queries against it. Where other open data sites only provide documentation about the dat…

Background Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features. We recently published a handful of case studies illustrating how companies are making use of Dolt in production settings. Of the com…

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, and merge. Today we're excited to announce the alpha release of SQL transactions! This blog will cover how transactions work in Dolt …

I've always enjoyed working on hardware projects. Some past projects include a dual analog controller that worked with my iPhone, a "Make it Rain" machine that threw out a real dollar bill every time you swip…

After spending 12 years at my previous company in multiple sales and sales leadership roles, I decided it was time for a change when Tim approached me about being the first full time sales person at his new da…

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…