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Dolt, a Relational Database with Git-Like Cloning Features

Tim Sehn had wondered for years why there wasn’t a place on the internet to collaborate on data. He had been vice president of engineering at Snapchat, but in his quest to figure out what was to come next, it wasn’t until Brian Hendriks and Aaron Son from Snapchat agreed to join him that they set to work on the problem, producing Dolt, a relational database with Git-like features.

Sanjeev Sharma, writing as an analyst for Accelerated Strategies Group, noted: Of late, there has been an ongoing quest for a Git-like solution for Data.

The Liquidata team wanted to rely on users’ familiarity with SQL and GitHub to make Dolt easy to use.

Indeed, discussion on Hacker News has noted the “flavor-of-the-month” nature of in “Git for data” projects.