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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

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752 points crazypython | 2 comments | 06 Mar 21 21:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source
1. px43 ◴[07 Mar 21 05:49 UTC] No.26373499[source]▶
Is there a nice way to distribute a database across many systems?

Would this be useful for a data-set like Wikipedia?

It would be really nice if anyone could easily follow Wikipedia in such a way that anyone could fork it, and merge some changes, but not others, etc. This is something that really needs to happen for large, distributed data-sets.

I really want to see large corpuses of data that can have a ton of contributors sending pull requests to build out some great collaborative bastion of knowledge.

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2. metaodi ◴[07 Mar 21 06:58 UTC] No.26373827[source]▶
This is basically Wikidata [1], where the distribution is linked data/RDF with a triple store and federation to query different triple stores at once using SPARQL.

[1] https://wikidata.org