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Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning, and like git, when you want to make your data available to others you need a place to push it to so others can clone / pull it. In both Git and Dolt this is c…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. A couple of months ago, our team was introduced to an engineering team that wanted to use Elixir with Dolt. Elixir is a "dynamic, functional language", based…

DoltHub is a place on the internet to share, discover, and collaborate on Dolt databases. Diffing between different versions of data is a big part of what makes Dolt unique as a database, and we revamped ou…

Dolt is a MySQL database that can branch, diff and merge. Every 6 weeks we launch a data bounty and pay contributors to build unique, public databases. Payment is based on the percent of cell edits a participa…

If you aren’t yet familiar with Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is a MySQL database that can branch, diff and merge. DoltHub hosts those databases on the web. We are currently running data bounties, a string of collab…

Any frequent visitor to DoltHub knows we publish a lot of blog posts. How many? Three per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Everyone at the company writes them. Why do we do that? This blog post will answer…

When we began working on Dolt in 2018 we leveraged Noms, an open source project that gave us efficient diff and merge capabilities. The company that had built Noms, Attic Labs, pitched it to developers as a …

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. One of our biggest priorities is ensuring that Dolt is a drop in replacement for any MySQL database. That means any query that can be run on a MySQL database m…

Hi, I'm New Here So for those of you that are new here too and I hope there are many of you, Dolt is a database with Git-like features. In Marvel terms, we took your standard base and gave it superpowers. …

Introduction We will learn how to version control Google Sheets data using Dolt and GitHub Actions today. This is intended for teams who might benefit from a Pull-Request process for managing Google Sheet…

Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, and merge. Those are the features you won't find in any other SQL database. But what about the features you can find in any other dat…

Introduction We are pleased to introduce a Kedro-Dolt plugin, a collaboration between Quantum Black Labs and DoltHub designed to expand the data versioning abilities of data scientists and engineers. You…

Background An explosion of data driven products and business processes is creating an urgent need for best practices to ensure data reaching end users is high quality. This data could be in the form of mach…

Aaron, Brian and I founded DoltHub as Liquidata in 2018. Our mission was to add liquidity to the data market. How could we get more data shared? Our main hypothesis was adding branch/merge functionality as in …

DoltHub was started in 2018 to create a place on the internet to access interesting, maintained data. That vision drove us to build Dolt, a versioned, syncable data format. It's "Git for Data". This year we…

DoltHub has an office again. We're here on 2nd street in downtown Santa Monica. Whether or not to return to the office seems to be a topic of interest in the technology community. This blog entry is our take o…

Introduction Dolt and Flyte joined forces to build two data integrations. Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git Versioning. Flyte is a workflow orchestrator for creating and evolving machine learning …

Last Wednesday, May 27, we completed our fifth data bounty and first V2 bounty. The focus of the bounty was US hospital prices. We had run a bounty for hospital prices that ended March 1. We loved the results …

PDAP are early Dolt adopters. Their open data mission aligns with DoltHub's and we're sponsoring a bounty to help get their project off the ground. This post goes through the mission, the bounty and ways you c…

One of my favorite things about DoltHub is that users can navigate to any public database it hosts and run real time SQL queries against it. Where other open data sites only provide documentation about the dat…