> Dolt is the only database with branches There's also litetree, whose slogan is simply "SQLite with branches": https://github.com/aergoio/litetree
Very cool. Have not heard of this one. Will check it out.
Dolt is Git for data
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Re: Dolt is Git for data
#72Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774 I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data c…
That's Git Hub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet. This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.
The OP points to a site called DoltHub.com, so it’s not like they don’t have ambitions to commercialize as another “GitHub for data”.
Re: Dolt is Git for data
#73Does Dolt have any benchmarks against other databases at scale? I would think that a git SQL database would not be very snappy at scale
We're working on building performance benchmarks right now. We started with correctness. You can read about our correctness journey here: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2019-12-17-one-nine-of-sql-corr...
We think over time (like years) we can achieve read performance parity with MySQL or PosgreSQL. Architecturally, we will always be slower on write than other SQL databases, given the versioned storage engine.
Right now, Dolt is built to be used offline for data sharing. And in that use case, the data and all of its history needs to fit on a single logical storage system. The biggest Dolt repository we have right now is 300Gb. It tickles some performance bottlenecks.
In the long run, if we get traction we imagine building "big dolt" which is a distributed version of Dolt, where the network cuts happen at logical points in the Merkle DAG. Thus, you could run an arbitrarily large storage and compute cluster to power it.
Re: Dolt is Git for data
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Re: Dolt is Git for data
#75Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774 I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data c…
That's Git Hub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet. This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.
There is actually an old git for data project too:
https://github.com/datproject/dat
It's ~5 years old and I really wanted it to be huge. Hoping this new project is a success. Especially since I notice I went to high school with one of the founders of Dolt (Hey Tim!)
Re: Dolt is Git for data
#76Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774 I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data c…
Git succeeded because it was free, and then business models were able to be built up around the open-source ecosystem after a market evolved naturally. There is a need, but if you go into it trying to build a business from scratch, you're going to have a bad time.
Git succeeded because of Linus.
Sure as hell wasn't because of the UX, else Mercurial would have won, or even DARCS.
99.99999% of projects are not the Linux kernel
Re: Dolt is Git for data
#77Any reason or history behind the name? It means "a stupid person", which seems like a bad choice IMHO: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolt
I actually thought at first glance the name was Do-It, which reminds me of this story from Bill Atkinson doing user testing at Apple:
We had a place where we would put up a dialog that would say “Do It”, or “Cancel”, and we’d give somebody a document and say “Here, edit this and save it”, and they’d get to the point where they’re supposed to choose “Do It”, and they’d look a little miffed, and then hit cancel. And we saw that several times, different people.
[...] And when we saw this [in the video recordings], people looking a little miffed and then hitting cancel instead of do it, we turned up the volume and played it back, and [heard them mutter]: “What’s this ‘Dolt’?” I’m no dolt! So I hit cancel”.
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Re: Dolt is Git for data
#78Re: Dolt is Git for data
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's Git Hub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet. This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.
There is actually an old git for data project too: https://github.com/datproject/dat It's ~5 years old and I really wanted it to be huge. Hoping this new project is a success. Especially since I notice I went to high school with one of the founders of Dolt (Hey Tim!)
Can it remove a file from the repo history? It's a GDPR feature that makes git hard to use for data.
Re: Dolt is Git for data
#80Git tracks changes in logic (software).
Tracking changes in Data is simply called a database...