Taylor Bantle

April 26, 2021

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We have a series about how we built DoltHub, which goes deeper into our system and front-end architecture. If you're curious about our architecture or the reaso...

Max Hoffman

April 22, 2021

Dolt is an SQL database with Git versioning. We have come a long way since initially committing to 100% MySQL compatibility, and today we introduce our latest step in that journey: check constraints. What Are Check Constraints? Check constraints ar...

Remy Ochei

April 19, 2021

Today, I’m thrilled to announce a second round of the Hospital Price Transparency Bounty. Our first pass was very elucidating; we learned a lot about the “shape” of the data and we’re excited to let our Discord lovelies take a second crack at it. We’...

Max Hoffman

April 16, 2021

Introduction Dolt and DVC are often compared because of because of DVC's name, Data Version Control. Dolt also does "data version control". So what's the difference? Well, DVC is a version controlled machine learning workflow manager and Dolt is a S...

Andy Arthur

April 14, 2021

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, it's Git for Data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. We've built Dolt to support the MySQL query dialect, with the goal of becoming a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Currently, we s...

Oscar Batori

April 12, 2021

Note: this blog post appeared on previously on Medium and represents a collaboration with the Metaflow maintainers at Netflix. Background This post details how to use Metaflow with Dolt. Metaflow is a framework for defining data science and data en...

Vinai Rachakonda

April 12, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We've been working hard to make Dolt fully compatible with MySQL. An important test for compatibility is support for MySQL editors. These editors provide user interfaces for you to inspect data and w...

Tim Sehn

April 5, 2021

Dolt is an open source database that supports Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. Dolt is collectively our team's first major open source endeavor. We're learning as we go. We recently ditched our Contrib...

Tim Sehn

April 2, 2021

It's that time. Our March dataset spotlight here at DoltHub. For new folks, Dolt is a SQL database with git-like versioning and DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. This monthly feature keeps you updated on Data Bounties and po...

Tim Sehn

March 29, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is Dolt's GitHub. A few weeks ago, we made private repositories free up to 1GB and announced it on Twitter. Private Repos are Free Tweet This blog explains why we made private repositories ...

Andy Arthur

March 25, 2021

"Open Data" is quickly attaining the hype and ambiguity of previous tech crazes like "Big Data" and "Block Chain". The motivation behind Open Data is easy to understand: data is one of the most valuable but closely guarded resources in the tech indu...

Zach Musgrave

March 24, 2021

Introduction Dolt is Git for data. It's a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a Git repository. We're committed to supporting 100% of the functionality offered by Git and 100% of the functionality offered by MySQ...

Max Hoffman

March 22, 2021

Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database. For data science (DS) workflows, specifically, Dolt uses data versioning primitives to implement unique flavors of reproducibility. DataFrames are a common interface for exploring CSV, Parquet and other fil...

Remy Ochei

March 19, 2021

Should you use DoltHub Bounties for your data-wrangling needs? Our bounty partners wanted to assemble a “master” catalog of all the college courses taught in the United States. For them, it was an easy riddle. To recap, a partner approached us with ...

Aaron Son

March 17, 2021

Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt's SQL functionality is built on top of a SQL engine written in Golang. We've previously blogged about our first steps in optimizing join...

Brian Hendriks

March 15, 2021

In the first part of this two part blog we covered concurrent connection handling within dolt sql-server. We learned about session state, how to commit changes, and how to persist those changes across sessions. Today we'll talk about the explicit act...

Brian Hendriks

March 12, 2021

Update 2021-08-02: Dolt now supports SQL transactions with COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SAVEPOINT and the other MySQL transaction primitives, so it's now safe to run the SQL server out of the box with multiple readers and writers. The techniques described in th...

Remy Ochei

March 11, 2021

Today, we’re launching our 4th bounty. Our previous three on the Presidential Election, Hospital Pricing, and College Course Catalogs have been eminent successes, if I do say so myself. Bounties are a really great way to assemble open datasets. Supe...

Daylon Wilkins

March 10, 2021

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, while adding all of the versioning features y...

Zach MusgraveandTim Sehn

March 9, 2021

About a year ago, we wrote a blog post about how we thought people might use Dolt, the SQL database you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository. At the time we wrote it, we didn't have any paying customers, and we wer...