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Dolt is Git for data

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358 points timsehn | 1 comments | 30 Mar 20 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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peteforde ◴[31 Mar 20 03:02 UTC] No.22734564[source]▶
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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1. dmitryminkovsky ◴[31 Mar 20 13:52 UTC] No.22737514[source]▶
You may be right in the big picture, but not all "GitHubs for data" are the same. This product seems super cool:

> Dolt is Git for data. Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. As far as we can tell, Dolt is the only database with branches.

I find it hard to believe no other database has branches, but if that's true and if this product works like you'd imagine, that is really cool.

Given your historical observation, I think you're right that this will not lead to a market revolution, but sometimes you need the right product to change the landscape.