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Infrastructure / Storage & Retrieval

Dolt

DoltHub

Dolt is a SQL database with version control built into the storage engine: tables are committed, branched, merged, pushed and pulled the way Git handles files, and the history is queryable through system tables and functions. It speaks the MySQL wire protocol, so existing clients connect unchanged, and it ships a Git-style command line beside the server. DoltHub develops it.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

3 low confidence
3.0

24,216 GitHub stars, which lands in the >10K stars band of the stars scale, level 3. Distributed as a Go binary; the `dolt` name on PyPI belongs to an unrelated project and must not be attached. No install count is published, so the stars scale applies with its cap of 3.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as single-purpose store or index. Placed two bands below the vespa anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the persist-index-retrieve path a product provides itself, at what scale and over how many retrieval modes.

  • https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/blob/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-18

    README still documents a SQL database that forks, clones, branches, merges, pushes and pulls like a Git repository, reachable as a MySQL database, with version control exposed through system tables, functions and procedures and through a Git-like command line.

Verified 2026-08-18