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Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by ComodoHacker »

The idea is good, the product may be good too (can't find any whitepapers or something about underlying technology). But some of their marketing is suspiciously unprofessional. Like "Better Database Backups". In DB world, you can't call a "backup" anything that can't restore all of your DB files bit-for-bit, anything non-deterministic. You can call it "dump", "export" or whatever, but not backup.

I don't think they plan to compete on DB backups storage market. So please don't mislead you potential customers.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by NicoJuicy »

peteforde wrote: post #36

Only 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 there was not a market opportunity to capture

Weird, there is an internal project ( already live) at the company ( multinational) where i work for that it's used.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by slavik81 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #125
slavik81 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linus is self-aware enough that I'm sure there's a kernel of truth to that joke, but both git and mercurial were clearly inspired by the BitKeeper fiasco. They describe an unpleasant and ill-tempered person, respectively. There's a lot of different ways that you could interpret the name Linus chose. That's part of what made it clever.

“Mercurial” doesn’t mean ill-tempered. It typically means fickle, changing. That can be related to moods (regularly pleasant, but inclined to fly off the handle with little provocation) but that is by no means its only application. It can also mean sprightly (connecting with the “changing” meaning), which is quite the opposite of ill-tempered.

Interesting. I don't think I've heard it used in a positive way before. If I knew anything at all about Mercury in Roman mythology, perhaps the other possible interpretations would have been more obvious.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by pedro1976 »

Recently i was working with some open-data data and i was in need for a tool that transforms those csv/jsons to something standardized, that i can run queries against and patch the data. Maybe this is a use case for dolt.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by wtetzner »

schwartzworld wrote: post #132
samatman wrote: post #63

> Dolt is the only database with branches There's also litetree, whose slogan is simply "SQLite with branches": https://github.com/aergoio/litetree

pretty sure you can just add an SQLite db file to git like any other file.

Branching is easy. Merging is not.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by solatic »

peteforde wrote: post #36

Only 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…

I wonder how much of the market opportunity here is contingent upon market education. Everybody can clearly see the value of having a personal automobile, but how successful can you be at selling automobiles to people who don't know how to drive? Do people desire cars enough to buy one if they don't know how to drive?

Everyone can see how FAANG companies are growing wealthy off the mountains of data they are amassing, so everyone understands how data can be desirable. But what if your potential market base doesn't understand how to "drive" data - how to identify which data would be valuable for them and how best to exploit it? It seems to me that part of a go-to-market strategy needs, at least in the short term, to help potential customers transition from "that's a really shiny bauble" to "I understand how this is going to make me money."

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by cbenz »

enos_feedler wrote: post #75
ken wrote: post #69

Earlier 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!)

Dat is more about distribution (décentralized, distributed, P2P) but it's not possible to make queries.

Re: Dolt is Git for data

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Post by tgb »

An example use case that "git for data" seems to break: storing data for medical research where the participants are allowed to withdraw from the study after the fact. Then their data must be deleted retroactively, not just in the head node. I don't know of a good methodology for dealing with this at all as it breaks backups, for example.

The problem extends beyond medical research due to privacy laws like the GDPR. A participant or user must be able to delete their data not merely hide it so as to protect themselves from data breaches. Suggestions welcome.

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