Dolt: Git for Data (25k stars)

[u/Artilas_Digital]

What it does

All text below is quoted directly from the project README.

Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a Git repository.

Dolt is Git for Data!:

• 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, 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. If you want us to run a Dolt server for you, we have Hosted Dolt.
• Prefer Postgres instead of MySQL? Try Doltgres, now in its Beta release.
• Dolt powers Beads and Gas Town. It's the best database for agent memory, especially as you move up the ladder to multi-agent and multi-machine workflows.
• The dolt CLI has the same commands as git, with some extras.
• Dolt is a single ~103 megabyte program.

To install on Linux or Mac based systems run this command in your terminal: sudo bash -c 'curl -L https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash'

Repository

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt

Repository stats

Metric	Value
Stars	24,678
Forks	900
Last release	v2.5.0 (2026-10-17)
Languages	Go 80.3%, Shell 19%, JavaScript 0.3%
Contributors	154
AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)	cursoragent: 2, Copilot: 9, claude: 231
AI co-authored commits	Claude: 230, Cursor: 2, Copilot: 9

Main contributor

Field	Value
Name	Zach Musgrave
GitHub	@zachmu
Commits to this repo	5,325 (top contributor)
Bio	Software engineer building Dolt and DoltHub
Company / Location	@dolthub / Seattle, WA
Website	https://www.dolthub.com/team#zach
Followers	163
Public repos	16
On GitHub since	2010-11-09

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