1. REFERENCE
    11 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data versi...

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  1. USE CASE
    6 min read

    Dolt + Turbine: Versioned Cancer Cell Simulations

    Dolt is a version controlled database. How would you use such a thing? Does your business create data? How do you maintain and compare many copies of that data? Do the people that create the data make mistakes? What's the process to recover from mis...

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  2. BOUNTY
    3 min read

    A single database for every museum: a retrospective

    About DoltHub data bounties Anyone can build a database given enough time. But at DoltHub we build databases in a distributed way, using a unique database, Dolt, that works like Git. Dolt is cool because you can create branches, make pull requests,...

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  3. REFERENCE
    5 min read

    Migrating Dolt's Binary Format

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Over the past year, the team at DoltHub has been working on a new storage engine for Dolt. Earlier this summer we re...

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  4. BOUNTY
    4 min read

    $12,000 US Housing Prices Bounty

    Coming off the heels of our successful museum collections data bounty is a sequel to one of our flagship projects: tracking every single housing sale record in existence. The link to the latest bounty is here. If you've never heard of Dolt, we use ...

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  5. DOLTLAB
    6 min read

    How to expose DoltLab with ngrok

    ngrok is the programmable network edge that makes it easy to publish unreachable ports on the public internet. DoltLab is the self-hosted, self-managed version of DoltHub, where you can push your Dolt databases, collaborate on changes, manage pull re...

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  6. 1 min read

    DoltHub comes to Seattle!

    DoltHub has opened a new office in Seattle's University District. Customers, connections, and friends – come see us!

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  7. REFERENCE
    11 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Understand database versioning definitions, methods, and tools. Outlines the business benefits of database versioning. Surveys database versioning products, including Dolt, the first version controlled SQL database.

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  8. REFERENCE
    6 min read

    How We Benchmark Dolt

    Dolt is a MySQL-compatible version-controlled database. It's the only SQL database with branches that you can diff, merge and sync. Performance has been a major focus of Dolt development over the past year, and we've made substantial progress on that...

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  9. BOUNTY
    4 min read

    Data, Deaths, and the Damn Prison System

    Steal this (note)book If you want to reproduce the charts from this notebook, clone this repository which has everything you need including the CSV files. The data comes from DoltHub's jails data bounty. Check it out. The data analysis was done in p...

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  10. REFERENCE
    6 min read

    So you want Database Forks?

    Learn what a database fork is, how to create a database fork, and the different tools that allow you to fork a database. Dolt is the ony MySQL compatible database that allows you to fork your database just like a Git repository.

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  11. FEATURE RELEASEDOLTLAB
    5 min read

    DoltHub and DoltLab now support SQL uploads

    Today we're excited to announce that DoltHub and DoltLab now support .sql file uploads. Prior to this change, users could only upload a .csv, .psv, .xlsx, or .json file using DoltHub and DoltLab's web UI. Although these are quite common file formats...

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  12. INTEGRATION
    6 min read

    Embedding Dolt in your Golang Application

    Dolt is a version controlled database. When run as a server, Dolt is MySQL compatible, so you can connect to it with any MySQL tools or clients. Running Dolt as a server is perfect to back applications, just like you would with MySQL or Postgres. ...

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  13. SQL
    4 min read

    Benchmarking Dolt's Import Performance

    Introduction If you want to work with a database, you probably want to get some data into it first. At DoltHub, we've spent a good chunk of time working on our table import feature which lets you import CSV, JSON, XLSX, and Parquet data into Dolt. I...

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  14. TECHNICAL
    9 min read

    Don't change your open-source database's storage engine

    It's all broken! Want a technical challenge? Find an open source database and change its storage engine. You'll have to rewrite hundreds if not thousands of functions, validate your changes against test suites, and continuously run benchmarks to ens...

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  15. FEATURE RELEASE
    2 min read

    How to set up branch protection rules on DoltHub

    Branch Protection For those of you that are new, Dolt is a database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share and collaborate on Dolt databases. Dolt has Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, p...

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  16. REFERENCE
    7 min read

    So you want Spreadsheet Version Control?

    Learn the difference between spreadsheet version history and spreadsheet version control. DoltHub comes with a spreadsheet editor or use Dolt database to add version control to Google Sheets or Excel.

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  17. HOSTEDREFERENCE
    8 min read

    Sleepless in Seattle: Wake up with AWS Incident Manager

    We added a support ticket system to our Hosted DoltDB website using AWS Incident Manager.

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  18. USE CASE
    9 min read

    Dolt Case Studies

    This is our annual update on how our customers are using Dolt, the world's first and only SQL database that you can branch and merge, fork and clone, push and pull just like a git repository. dolt Last year's update included a lot more speculative ...

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  19. SQL
    8 min read

    Relational Database Design: A Step-By-Step Guide

    Introduction As an engineer working on Dolt, I spend most of my time working on the internals of a database system. Recently, I worked on using Dolt as a product to create a dataset that stored the entire Bitcoin blockchain's history. As I ambitious...

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  20. 4 min read

    Dolt now supports Column Statistics

    Dolt is a version controlled database that combines the features of Git and functionality of MySQL. In this release, we added column statistics, getting us one step closer to MySQL's feature set. Our analyzer can utilize these statistics to improve t...

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