arXiv AI By Hongshen Gou, Zuyu Zhang, Yuze Sun, Peng Xu, Feng Tian, Long Wang, Jianguo Wang

Git4Data: Database-Native Version Control for AI Agents

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Git4Data introduces a database-native version‑control layer that treats a database as a repository and each table as a versioned object, exposing Git‑style operations—snapshot/tag, branch, diff, and merge—through SQL extensions. Implemented in MatrixOne, it leverages immutable object storage and MVCC so that operation costs depend on the size of the change rather than the entire dataset. In agentic branching workloads, Git4Data outperforms DoltDB by up to an order of magnitude, demonstrating efficient versioning for AI agents.

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