--- title: "dolt" type: "tool" slug: "dolthub-dolt" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/dolthub-dolt" github_url: "https://github.com/dolthub/dolt" homepage_url: "https://www.dolthub.com" stars: 23798 forks: 822 primary_language: "Go" license: "Apache-2.0" categories: ["data-retrieval"] tags: ["git-for-data", "data-version-control", "database-version-control", "version-controlled-database"] updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:24:49.355612+00:00" --- # dolt > Dolt โ€“ Git for Data A SQL database with version control features similar to Git. ## Facts - Repository: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt - Homepage: https://www.dolthub.com - Stars: 23,798 ยท Forks: 822 ยท Open issues: 588 ยท Watchers: 122 - Primary language: Go - License: Apache-2.0 - Last pushed: 2026-07-07T17:11:31+00:00 ## Categories - [Data & Retrieval](/categories/data-retrieval.md) ## Tags git-for-data, data-version-control, database-version-control, version-controlled-database ## Related tools - [transformers](/tools/huggingface-transformers.md) - ๐Ÿค— Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models (โ˜… 162,347) - [langflow](/tools/langflow-ai-langflow.md) - Langflow is a powerful platform for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. 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Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository. Connect to Dolt just like any MySQL database to read or modify schema and data. Version control functionality is exposed in SQL via system tables, functions, and procedures. Or, use the Git-like command line interface to import CSV files, commit your changes, push them to a remote, or merge your teammate's changes. All the commands you know for Git work exactly the same for Dolt. Git versions files. Dolt versions tables. It's like Git and MySQL had a baby. We also built [DoltHub](https://www.dolthub.com), a place to share Dolt databases. We host public data for free. If you want to host your own version of DoltHub, we have [DoltLab](https://www.doltlab.com). If you want us to run a Dolt server for you, we have [Hosted Dolt](https://hosted.doltdb.com). Prefer Postgres instead of MySQL? Try [Doltgres](https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql), now in its Beta release. [Join us on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/RFwfYpu) to say hi and ask questions, or [check out our roadmap](https://dolthub.com/docs/other/roadmap) to see what we're building next. # Video Introduction # What's it for? Lots of things! Dolt is a generally useful tool with countless applications. But if you want some ideas, [here's how people are using it so far](https://dolthub.com/blog/2024-10-15-dolt-use-cases/). Dolt powers [Beads](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads) and [Gas Town](https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown). It's the best database for agent memory, especially as you move up the ladder to multi-agent and multi-machine workflows. # Dolt CLI The `dolt` CLI has the same commands as `git`, with some extras. ``` $ dolt Valid commands for dolt are init - Create an empty Dolt data repository. status - Show the working tree status. add - Add table changes to the list of staged table changes. diff - Diff a table. reset - Remove table changes from the list of staged table changes. clean - Remove untracked tables from working set. commit - Record changes to the repository. sql - Run a SQL query against tables in repository. sql-server - Start a MySQL-compatible server. log - Show commit logs. branch - Create, list, edit, delete branches. checkout - Checkout a branch or overwrite a table from HEAD. merge - Merge a branch. conflicts - Commands for viewing and resolving merge conflicts. cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by an existing commit. revert - Undo the changes introduced in a commit. clone - Clone from a remote data repository. fetch - Update the database from a remote data repository. pull - Fetch from a dolt remote data repository and merge. push - Push to a dolt remote. config - Dolt configuration. remote - Manage set of tracked repositories. backup - Manage a set of server backups. login - Login to a dolt remote host. creds - Commands for managing credentials. ls - List tables in the working set. schema - Commands for showing and importing table schemas. table - Commands for copying, renaming, deleting, and exporting tables. tag - Create, list, delete tags. blame - Show what revision and author last modified each row of a table. constraints - Commands for handling constraints. migrate - Executes a database migration to use the latest Dolt data format. read-tables - Fetch table(s) at a specific commit into a new dolt repo gc - Cleans up unreferenced data f ``` --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/dolthub-dolt`](/api/graphcanon/tools/dolthub-dolt) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_