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Here at DoltHub, we’re building Dolt DB – a new type of distributed, versioned database that gives you all the power and expressivity of a SQL relational database, combined with the ability to time travel …

The software development world vs. the database admin world Why is the way we make changes to software so different from the way we make changes to databases? It's impossible not to notice. In one world we…

Immutable databases come in three flavors: ledgers, blockchains, and version controlled databases. This is a survey of immutable databases, excluding blockchains. Dolt is an immutable SQL database with version…

DoltHub is a web-based UI built in React to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We recently migrated our monorepo to Yarn 2 (or Yarn Modern). It took us some extra steps to make Yarn 2 work …

One of the best use cases to get started using Dolt is to version control your existing database in Dolt. This is going to be very additive to your existing environment and won't require changes to your existi…

This year we launched DoltLab the self-hosted version of DoltHub. In February, we released the latest version of DoltLab, version v0.2.0, which included a number of features and bug fixes. We are actively work…

Introduction Dolt is on its way to becoming a production grade version-controlled MySQL database. Most developers associate "production grade" software with performance, but to us, it includes user experie…

About this bounty For our latest bounty we've been pretty ambitious. We asked our community to go out and scrape as many housing sales records as they can find, and after the bounty finished, we topped out …

With Dolt, you can push and pull a local MySQL compatible database to and from a remote. Remotes can be managed with the dolt remote CLI command and it supports many types of remotes. You can use a separate…

If any of you are like me, you've been distracted for the past couple weeks with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This event has fundamentally changed the perspectives of many in the world. I foresee a bigger …

US Housing Prices Bounty Retrospective A year ago we launched DoltHub data bounties. If you're unfamiliar, we use Dolt to create open databases that don't exist anywhere else on the internet. We use Dolt's …

About At DoltHub we are laser focused on improving Dolt's UX across the database stack. A key part of this is integrating with SQL Editors that offer an elegant SQL reading and writing experience. Below is …

We aim to make Dolt 100% MySQL compliant, but we are also committed to making Dolt fast. My colleagues are hard at work adding new optimizations to our storage layer — inlining functions, minimizing memory…

Dolt is an open-source version-controlled database. It lets you push and pull databases just like you can push and pull source code with git. You can make changes on a local clone, commit, and then dolt pus…

We launched our latest product DoltLab earlier this year to provide users who don't want to push their data to the public internet a self-hosted DoltHub. Since DoltLab's launch, we've been working to make d…

We recently landed users and privileges in Dolt. This video shows how to get started using them in your own database! If you need any additional help to get set up, or just want to chat, head over to our Dis…

We recently launched our latest product DoltLab, the self-hosted version of DoltHub. In the announcement blog I detailed the instructions for getting up and running with DoltLab on a Linux host and today's vid…

For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data. Git versions files. Dolt versions SQL tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. Just a bit of context We've been work…

At DoltHub we never like to go a day without a bounty. Having just wrapped up our US Housing Prices Bounty we announce without further ado... $15,0000 US Hospitals Bounty: "third time's the charm" If you…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. Today, we're proud to announce that we've implemented users and privileges! As we're aiming to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it is very important that …