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Re:What if database branching was easy? by zachmu on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:34PM (#47838639)
Can you be more specific about what complications you ran into? As for performance, Dolt is faster overall than MySQL on sysbench now.

https://docs.dolthub.com/sql-reference/benchmarks/latency

Re:What if database branching was easy? by bhouston on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:53AM (#47861726)
It was https://threekit.com. It was a while ago now but we had to use MySQL for our primary copy that users used (e.g. prod), and only when they were working on branches did we use dolt. I think the second complication was that Dolt was not stable enough to use in heavy load scenarios as well.

I can delete this comment if you do not want to discuss this publicly.

Re:What if database branching was easy? by zachmu on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:34PM (#47883640)
I remember that engineering decision. You guys were pretty early customers for your throughput and durability requirements (we hadn't even added standby replication yet when you started your integration). We've come a long way in the years since then.
Re:What if database branching was easy? by timsehn on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:40PM (#47884124)
Thanks for being an early adopter. We learned a lot trying to support your use case and you’re still customers so it can’t have been too bad…