Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderIf anyone from the dolt team is reading this, I'd like to make an enquiry: At bugout.dev, we have an ongoing crawl of public GitHub. We just created a dataset of code snippets crawled from popular GitHub repositories, listed by language, license, github repo, and commit hash and are looking to release it publicly and keep it up-to-date with our GitHub crawl. The dataset for a single crawl comes in at about 60GB. We uploaded the data to Kaggle because…
This is the future of databases, but nobody seems to realize it yet. One of the biggest problems with databases (particularly SQL ones) is they're a giant pile of mutable state. The whole idea of "migrations" exists because it is impossible to "just" revert any arbitrary change to a database, diff changes automatically, merge changes automatically. You need some kind of intelligent tool or framework to generate DDL, DML, DCL, they have to be applied in turn, something has to…
I was searching for solutions to create a public collaborative tool, similar to Wikipedia, when I came across this database. I need version control and easy rollback for the moderation team. Dolt seems to be a great fit for this purpose.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1107
- Total comments
- 313
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-28 | Dolt – It's Git for Data | jhoechtl | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-03-06 | Dolt: Git for Data | pcr910303 | 4 | 0 |
| 2021-03-06 | Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, mergeFirst breakout · Best thread | crazypython | 752 | 176 |
| 2021-03-08 | Dolt – It's Git for Data | feross | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-09-27 | Dolt Is Git for Data | grodes | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-06-23 | Dolt is Git for DataLatest 20+ point return | gjvc | 334 | 134 |
| 2024-01-05 | Dolt: A version-controlled SQL database | julien040 | 5 | 3 |
| 2024-01-18 | Dolt – Git for Data | saikatsg | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-03-13 | Dolt – Git for Data | geoffbp | 2 | 0 |