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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 …

Dolt started as a data sharing tool. Dolt is still a great data sharing tool as you can see from DoltHub Data Bounties where people around the world collaborate on building open databases. But as Dolt got m…

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…