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Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. We are a drop-in replacement for MySQL, making it very easy to use Dolt. The versioning features of Dolt bring many clear advantages over using MySQL, howeve…

How to Create a Database on DoltHub In this video, we walk through how to sign up for a DoltHub.com account and create a Dolt database on the DoltHub GUI. DoltHub is easy to use. Even a non-technical user c…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Our blog is a separate Gatsby application. Each page is created from a markdown file, which includes metadata that c…

Dolt is a Git database. Learn what Git Database means and the different options versioning data and schema like Git does with code. The Dolt database versions data and schema with full audit history, diffs, an…

Database configuration isn't the most exciting topic. Developers dislike prolonged onboarding, preferring to dive straight into application building. Because Dolt marries the concepts of Git And MySQL, we m…

Dolt, The Developer Friendly Database Dolt is a version controlled database. With Dolt, you get all the convenience of Git-style source code control in your database, for both data and schema. Imagine your …

Dolt is a SQL database with git-like version control capabilities, the only SQL database you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull like a git repository. Until very recently, Dolt was lacking …

Dolt is a version controlled database. How would one use such a thing? Do you build an application to collect configuration data? Is data quality an issue? Do you detect defects when data changes or do de…

Yesterday we quietly rolled out a preview of hosted Dolt. You can visit any of your databases on DoltHub, and click a button to get a cloud instance running Dolt sql server. Don't have a database? You can cr…

Dolt is a SQL database with git-like version control capabilities, the only SQL database you can branch and merge, clone and fork, push and pull like a git repository. Very early in the development lifecycl…

If you haven't heard, DoltHub is building a database. Dolt is the only SQL database you can branch, merge, diff and clone. It's a MySQL compatible database with version control. As Dolt matures into a fully…

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, and merge. In previous posts we've discussed the implementation of joins with primitives such as join planning and index accesses. We've taken another…

DoltHub is a web-based UI to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. We use Figma, a popular collaborative interface design tool, to work with our designer Jan on designs for our website. Bef…

A little over a year ago I blogged about publishing the FBI NIBRS Crime Data on DoltHub. In that blog, I describe the dataset the FBI publishes and discuss some of the challenges of working with large amounts …

This guest blog post is by Spacelove, a top performer of several of our former bounties and winner of many thousands of dollars in prize money. He agreed to be the coordinator and judge for the US Businesses d…

It's that time again. We just finished the US businesses bounty so it's time for a new bounty. We are launching a $10,000 bounty to build SHAQ. Shared Hoops Database for Accessible Querying. Shaq! …

Here at DoltHub, we write a lot of software in Go. We've previously blogged a little bit about error handling and errgroup in particular, but today I wanted to share two patterns regarding errgroups that ca…

Dolt is a version controlled database. In order to offer full, robust, Git-style version control for both schema and data, Dolt makes some performance trade offs. Each write needs to be stored to disk and hash…

Dolt is a SQL database that you can clone, fork, branch, merge, push and pull like a git repository. Its storage engine is built from the ground up to make these operations possible, but over the wire it s…

Finding Dolt Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is the only database that offers complete Git versioning for data. Dolt databases are MySQL compliant but can be created and edited locally, replicat…