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Dolt is Git for data, a SQL database with version control tooling. While Dolt is nearing full MySQL compatibility, its current command line interface (CLI) functionality hasn't been accessible in SQL. That mea…

Dolt is Git for Data. It's a SQL database that you can branch, merge, clone, fork, push and pull, just like files in Git. Today we're going to be talking about our quest to get Dolt's branding right, and ou…

Dolt is a version controlled SQL database. Dolt's query interface is SQL, and it has Git-like version control features. Adding version control features to a SQL database has performance trade offs when compari…

Every month we highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus is on new or updated datasets but sometimes we shed fresh light on a classic. For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data…

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for filter-branch in Dolt. "Customer f…

Github Actions FTW Not too long ago we endeavored to migrate Dolt's continuous integration pipeline from Jenkins to Github Actions. I wrote a blog about that process and complimented Github Actions on makin…

Dolt is a SQL database that supports Git-like functionality, including branch, merge, clone, push and pull. Dolt targets compatibility with MySQL as an existing SQL dialect and wire protocol. We built Dolt …

"Database version control" and "version controlled database" are not the same thing. Version controlling your database refers to the practice of storing schema and schema modifications in a traditional source …

When Tim, Aaron, and I started working on this problem in August 2018 we immediately began playing with Noms. It was an open source project that gave us a lot of the things Aaron and I had been talking about…

Dolt is Git for data and DoltHub is our web application that houses Dolt repositories. A few weeks ago I wrote about merging pull requests on DoltHub and our roadmap for "edit on the web". We're working on red…

We originally built Dolt because we thought that existing data distribution formats were broken. In particular, we believed that consumers of data should not have to parse various formats (CSV, JSON, etc.), wr…

After four years of incredibly rancorous discourse about whether the US President was illegitimately elected with the help of foreign interference, it should surprise no one that the 2020 presidential elect…

Dolt is a database built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. We intend to become a fully MySQL compatible dat…

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-like version control features. It presents a familiar SQL interface while exposing Git-like primitives for versioning tables and their data. Doltpy is a Python API for interacti…

Every month we highlight some interesting datasets on DoltHub. The focus is on new or updated datasets but sometimes we shed fresh light on a classic. For those new to Dolt and DoltHub, Dolt is Git for data…

Dolt is Git for Data, a SQL database you can branch, merge, clone, fork, sync, push and pull. Today we're excited to announce the release of a new optimization in the query planner: pushing down filters! …

When we began working on Dolt we made the decision to build on top of Noms. Noms stores data in a content addressable DAG, and has countless applications. It was a great starting point for us to build Dolt, …

We use Cypress to write integration tests against DoltHub in production. Learn how we set up tests that log in a user so that we can test against authenticated pages.

Dolt is a SQL database with Git-style versioning. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt databases. It takes a strong technical team to build a database from the storage engine up even when you ge…

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution. It's "Git for Data," a SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, clone, fork, push and pull. Today, we're announcing support for garbage collecti…