dolt mit Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• dolt

Projektgeschichte

The Dolt repository was created in July 2019 and its README has long summarized the project as Git for Data. The core idea is simple and unusual: Git versions files, while Dolt versions tables.

The earliest listed GitHub release in the current release stream is v0.9.7 from August 2019. By 2026, Dolt had reached the 2.x series with frequent releases, showing a long-lived database engine rather than a one-off CLI experiment.

Dolt's project surface expanded into a broader DoltHub ecosystem. The README points to DoltHub for sharing public databases, DoltLab for self-hosting a DoltHub-like service, Hosted Dolt for managed servers, and Doltgres as the related Postgres-flavored project.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Dolt is packaged unusually widely for a database engine with version-control semantics. The official README documents direct release installs, Homebrew, Arch Linux official repositories, MacPorts, Windows installers, Chocolatey, Docker images, and source builds; the package metadata also lists additional package managers such as Nix, Scoop, Winget, and apk.

Its adoption story is tied to a specific audience: data engineers, analysts, and application developers who want data changes to have branch, diff, blame, merge, and remote workflows instead of living only inside dumps, migrations, or opaque database snapshots.

Wie es verwendet wird

Dolt can be used as a Git-like CLI in a data repository, a SQL query tool, or a MySQL-compatible server. The README lists familiar commands such as init, status, add, diff, commit, log, branch, checkout, merge, clone, fetch, pull, push, remote, tag, and blame alongside SQL-specific commands.

A typical workflow imports or edits tables, stages table changes, commits them, branches for experiments, merges teammate changes, and pushes or pulls from a remote. The same data can also be served to MySQL clients through dolt sql-server.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Dolt is significant because it bends two familiar package categories into one installable tool: a database binary and a Git-like version-control CLI. For package nerds, it is a rare case where the command name, storage engine, server mode, and hosted ecosystem all revolve around one data-versioning model.

It also demonstrates a modern database project that treats command-line ergonomics as central. Installing dolt gives users both a database server and a VCS-shaped toolbox, which is why it shows up across OS package managers rather than only as a server image.

Zeitleiste

• 2019: Dolt repository created and v0.9.7 released.
• 2020: Dolt continued frequent 0.x releases while maturing the database format and CLI.
• 2024: README points users to published use cases and a broader DoltHub ecosystem.
• 2026: v2.1.10 released, with active development continuing in late June.

Related projects

• Dolt is closely related to DoltHub, DoltLab, Hosted Dolt, and Doltgres. Conceptually it also sits between Git, MySQL-compatible databases, data version-control systems, and hosted dataset-sharing platforms.

Quellen

• https://github.com/dolthub/dolt#readme
• https://api.github.com/repos/dolthub/dolt
• https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/releases/tag/v0.9.7
• https://github.com/dolthub/dolt/releases/tag/v2.1.10