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CEO of DoltHub here. We just released Hosted Dolt: a cloud hosted version of Dolt.
https://hosted.doltdb.com/
For those of you new to Dolt (https://github.com/dolthub/dolt). Dolt is like Git and MySQL had a baby. We built a SQL database from the storage engine up to support branch, merge, clone, diff and all the other Git idioms.
Hosted Dolt is ideal for building Dolt backed applications. The primary use cases our customers use Dolt for are (1) backing machine learning pipelines or (2) building applications that provide Git-style version control to the application's customers. But we can imagine many others.
More information in our launch blog:
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-05-18-hosted-dolt/
We did a short survey of your options for database version control. Our intent is to help database aficionados like yourself distinguish between "database migration tools" and "version controlled databases".
The blog goes into depth on Liquibase, Redgate Deploy, Planetscale, TerminusDB, and Dolt. It also touches on SCD (slowly changing dimension) and Temporal tables.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-17-database-version-control/
Link to it if you like it. The search results for "database version control" are not great.
https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/us-president-precinct-results
The contest ended yesterday. We think it's the best open database on the internet about this topic so we thought we'd share it with HackerNews.
Check out the full blog entry about it here:
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-02-15-election-bounty-review/
CEO of DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com) here. We are running a contest on DoltHub to gather and clean US Presidential Election precinct-level results. The prize pool is $25,000. The prize will be divided up in February based on number of cells added to the database, last edit of a single cell wins.
This kind of contest is possible because Dolt (https://www.doltdb.com) is a database with Git-style version control. It's the only SQL database you can branch and merge allowing hundreds of people to collaboratively edit.
For more information and some hints about how to get started, check out:
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-12-14-make-money-data-wrangling/
We're looking forward to this community's contributions.
This is not self-promotion. We discovered this cool online collaborative environment for Jupyter notebooks that HackerNews users should check out. It integrated really easily with our software. You get 100Gb of storage and a virtual machine to execute your notebook for free. Just link to it and people you know can edit and run it from anywhere on the internet.
Blog on how it works with our software here: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-10-14-using-dolt-with-deepnote/
We seeded a collaborative GPT-3 prompt/response dataset and open sourced the scraper we used. We were wondering if this community would have any interest in helping out with it. Let us know what you think.
I'm the CEO of an early stage startup called Liquidata. We built a product called Dolt. I wrote a blog article about what it's been like for me managing a small pre-revenue company the last 6 months. I think it will be helpful and uplifting for others in the same position or working at a similar company.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-07-22-covid-startup-times/
CEO of the company that built Dolt (https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt) and DoltHub (https://www.dolthub.com) here.
If you aren't Dolt is Git versioning wrapped around a SQL database. DoltHub is a place to share databases in Dolt format. We think it's a better way to share open data on the internet. No importing. SQL comes with the format.
Every month we'll be publishing a blog on new or interesting datasets on DoltHub. This is the first in that series:
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-05-01-april-dataset-spotlight/
If you put a dataset on Dolt and DoltHub you want us to spotlight, hit us up (https://www.dolthub.com/contact).