dolthub/dolt on Hacker News

…as a space heater. I filed an issue here and hope to find some time this week to research more: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/issues/10849

comment by sowbug · 2026-04-14 · in Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0

…server instead of MySQL / Postgres, of course. But it's free and open source, give it a shot. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2026-01-14 · in Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?

Possibly if this sounds interesting you should check out Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt “Git for Data! (...) a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository.” With respect to querying…

comment by kragen · 2025-09-24 · in Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project

…There's countless git-like data systems. Dolt DB, LakeFS, and notably Iceberg has branching. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt https://lakefs.io/ https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/latest/branching/ My experience is the pushback that git is too…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-01 · in First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution

…version of Dolt, we built DoltgreSQL. Warning, it's early Alpha. Dolt is production-ready. [0] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt?tab=readme-ov-file#dolt-is-g...

comment by philsnow · 2025-01-24 · in Data Branching for Batch Job Systems

We built a MySQL-compatible one and are building a Postgres-compatible one :-) Free and open source. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt We use the reset functionality to speed up our tests. https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-06-10-enginetest-pe…

comment by timsehn · 2024-06-17 · in How to test without mocking

The readme mentions at least one interesting use which presumably is the impetus for its creation: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zbuttram · 2024-04-10 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

Hi, this is my project :) For us this package is most important as the query engine that powers Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt We aren't the original authors but have contributed the vast majority of its code at this point. Here's…

comment by zachmu · 2024-04-09 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

…contributions from other people building their own database implementations on top of it. [1] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt [2] https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-05-04-adopting-go-mysql-se...

comment by zachmu · 2024-04-09 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

…go library to test against. For a production-ready database that uses this engine, see Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2024-04-09 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go

…our unique feature (version control) to even consider it over Postgres, and I don't blame them. [1] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2024-03-29 · in The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

Somebody already said this, but we built exactly this and it's called Dolt. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt Would love to hear how it addresses your use case or falls short.

comment by zachmu · 2024-03-27 · in Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Have you considered https://github.com/dolthub/dolt for your use case?

comment by john-shaffer · 2024-03-26 · in Friends don't let friends export to CSV

Maybe this https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by rofrol · 2024-02-09 · in Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

…row fetching was coupled to the Node type directly. This is also the query engine that Dolt uses: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt But it has a plug-in architecture, so you can use the engine on any data source that implements a handful of…

comment by zachmu · 2024-01-29 · in What I talk about when I talk about query optimizer (part 1): IR design

…development on the project. It's absolutely not ready for mainstream use yet! We have Dolt ( https://github.com/dolthub/dolt ) which is production-ready and widely in use, but it uses MySQL's syntax and wire protocol. We are building the…

comment by Hydrocharged · 2023-11-03 · in Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

The engine is free and open-source. You can buy support, but these are free products. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt In fact, we've got a blog post about Dolt and Wordpress. https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-04-wordpress-on-dolt/

comment by Hydrocharged · 2023-11-03 · in Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

At the moment, it does not exist for DoltgreSQL as it is in pre-alpha. Dolt ( https://github.com/dolthub/dolt ), however, may be a better fit for your use case. https://docs.dolthub.com/concepts/dolt/rdbms/replication

comment by Hydrocharged · 2023-11-02 · in Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

…out that attempt to tackle schema versioning, but none have tackled data versioning before Dolt ( https://github.com/dolthub/dolt ). In addition, our database isn't forked, it's a full, bespoke solution that can operate as a drop-in…

comment by Hydrocharged · 2023-11-02 · in Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

…support the entirety of PostgreSQL's feature set, even including features like extensions. Dolt ( https://github.com/dolthub/dolt ), our first product, is the same to MySQL and DoltgreSQL is to Postgres, and we're taking a no-compromises…

comment by Hydrocharged · 2023-11-02 · in Show HN: DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby

…is as simple and as fast as it can be? I guess I am inspired by Dolt’s ability to branch and merge: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by bhouston · 2023-10-02 · in Pg_branch: Experimental Postgres extension brings Neon-like branching

https://dvc.org/ https://github.com/dolthub/dolt https://www.pachyderm.com/

comment by wendyshu · 2023-09-28 · in Ask HN: How do your ML teams version datasets and models?

…https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31265005 #. dolthub/dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt : > Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git…

comment by westurner · 2023-08-09 · in SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge

Very cool! Have you heard about dolt, which is also "Git for Data?" https://github.com/dolthub/dolt We also built dolthub, which is like github for dolt databases: https://www.dolthub.com/

comment by zachmu · 2023-05-03 · in Git for data that commits incremental diffs to Git itself

If you are just looking for data versioning there is Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt And that has a user-friendly UI in DoltHub: https://www.dolthub.com/ You wouldn't store the images themselves in Dolt, those would likely be links…

comment by timsehn · 2023-05-01 · in Ask HN: Data Management for AI Training

Dolt does 3-way merge for both schema and data https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2023-04-26 · in Database branching: three-way merge for schema changes

How does it compare to dolt? https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by jiangplus · 2023-02-21 · in Oxen.ai: Fast Unstructured Data Version Control

…not MLOps, but we do have some customers using Dolt as the backing store for their training data. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt Dolt also scales to the 1TB range and offers you full SQL query capabilities on your data and diffs.

comment by timsehn · 2022-12-13 · in Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos

…sense to me. Before you managed to produce mvsqlite, I was wondering if it is possible to rebase https://github.com/dolthub/dolt content-addressed page store(implemented with ProllyTree over a standard OS FS) onto FDB, so that there will…

comment by mumoshu · 2022-07-30 · in Show HN: Mvsqlite – Distributed, MVCC SQLite That Runs on FoundationDB

see also https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by gjvc · 2022-07-22 · in Litetree – SQLite with Branches

…I’d like to embed Dolt [0] instead, specifically for the Dolthub-backed collaboration model. [0] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by pbronez · 2022-07-07 · in Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file

dolthub/dolt https://github.com/dolthub/dolt : dolt clone dolt pull dolt push dolt checkout dolt branch dolt commit dolt merge dolt blame dolt diff mgramin/awesome-db-tools > schema > changes: https://github.com/mgramin/awesome-db-tools#cha…

comment by westurner · 2022-05-04 · in Sqldiff: SQLite Database Difference Utility

…an issue. Dolt & TerminusDB are the most prominent. https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by LukeEF · 2021-10-08 · in Git as a Storage

You should check out dolt, does exactly what you're describing, and is a drop-in MySQL replacement: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2021-09-07 · in Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't

…[1]: https://healthcare.ascension.org/price-transparency/price-tr... [2]: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt#dolt

comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-06-03 · in Open Database of 100M Hospital Prices

…(and changing your mind about when they happened), so you’ll still need timestamps for that. [1] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by skybrian · 2021-04-24 · in You might as well timestamp it

…to a small text+git based "db". Say, for a regular json or CSV dumps. This also reminds me of Dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt which I believe has been on HN a couple times

comment by patrickdevivo · 2021-04-06 · in Git as a NoSql Database (2016)

That's Dolt. https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by timsehn · 2021-04-05 · in Git as a NoSql Database (2016)

Or for a SQL database with Git versioning semantics: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by zachmu · 2021-04-05 · in Git as a NoSql Database (2016)

…users who may eventually upgrade to your paid service? I would like to find out the answers! [0] https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by pbronez · 2021-02-22 · in Cross-Database Queries in SQLite

…a similar feature set should check out https://github.com/attic-labs/noms and the SQL fork of Noms, https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

comment by lifty · 2021-01-25 · in CondensationDB: A general-purpose distributed database with end-to-end security

…-p chromium --command chromium (without root), but it feels like cheating. > Git but for data https://github.com/dolthub/dolt (again, never tried it yet, but would like in future)

comment by st1ck · 2021-01-02 · in The Great Software Stagnation

…($7m raised) building git for data. Our core project is an open source database called dolt ( https://github.com/dolthub/dolt ) that allows git like version control for databases (branches and merges). Dolthub ( https://www.dolthub.com/ )…

comment by konda · 2020-12-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

…on the web. Similar to GitHub, users can open a pull request with proposed changes to a Dolt ( https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt ) repository and merge in those changes after review and approval. This is our first step to making it…

comment by tbantle22 · 2020-10-08 · in Merging database changes on the web using DoltHub

…the acquisition. Dolt is based on noms (not sure how much is has diverged) and much more active: https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt

comment by tantalic · 2020-09-01 · in The database I wish I had

Dolt ( https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt ) and DoltHub ( https://dolthub.com ) are Git and GitHub for data. This blog discusses our newest feature - first-party accounts and signing in with a username and password.

comment by tbantle22 · 2020-07-17 · in Username and Password Login on DoltHub

…[2] https://github.com/splitgraph/splitgraph/blob/master/example... [3] https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/tree/master/go/utils/r... [4] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/ingesting-data/foreign-data-...

comment by mildbyte · 2020-06-24 · in Show HN: Splitgraph - Build and share data with Postgres, inspired by Docker/Git

…basically an Elastic-esque search server written in Rust. Seems to have really taken off. 4. Dolt – https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt – bills itself as a 'Git for data'. It's relational, speaks SQL, but has version control on…

comment by petercooper · 2020-06-15 · in Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing

Dolt ( https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt ) and DoltHub ( https://dolthub.com ) are Git and GitHub for data. Having a versioned database makes collaborating on data more fluid and reliable in the same way that Git improves source code…

comment by tbantle22 · 2020-06-08 · in Cell History Inspection on DoltHub

Author here. I'm a software engineer at Liquidata ( https://liquidata.co ), the company behind Dolt ( https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt ) and DoltHub ( https://dolthub.com ). We're building the future of data distribution and…

comment by mjesuele · 2020-05-18 · in GraphQL Saved Us from the gRPC Dumpster Fire We Created