Dolt is Git for data

Very cool! The world needs better version control for data.

How does this compare to something like Pachyderm?

How does it work under the covers? What is a splice and what does it mean when it overlaps? https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/blob/84d9eded517167eb2...

Is it feasible to use Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) for this?

Hi Sid, if you are curious about how it works internally, you can read some of the old docs from Noms here (Dolt uses a fork of Noms as its internal storage layer).

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md

To answer your question, it is pretty easy to make Noms (or Dolt) into a CRDT by defining a merge function that is deterministic.

We experimented with this in Noms but the result wasn't that satisfying and we didn't take it any further:

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/decent/ab...

Thanks for your answer!