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Their number 1 problem is the name.
by wolf550e 10y ago
Their number 1 problem is the name.
- systems 10y agothey should have named it after a fruit ... like mangodb or something
- Rapzid 10y agoMango IS tasty. Much more tasty than cockroach IMHO. Still though, I doubt the name is much of an issue.
- user5994461 10y agoI just had a horrible vision of mango and cockroach together :( You guys are ruining my lunch time.
- bshimmin 10y agoSomebody already thought of that one! https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb proprietary auto sharting algorithm makes me laugh every time.
- systems 10y agoit was a word play on mongodb and apple :) but i guess no one got the joke , because you know apple is like a famous tech company and mongodb is a popular nosql db so apple+mongodb = mangodb .. got it .. no .. :(
- ridwanmsharif 10y agowell personally I thought fleshing out a distributed key-value store atop thousands of raft groups whilst maintaining strong consistency guarantees would be their number one problem but I think we might have different definitions here.
- sheeshkebab 10y agoman, they are committed to spreading infestation... "Roaches on Open Water! CockroachDB on DigitalOcean" https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roaches-on-open-water-cockroachdb-on-digitalocean/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roaches-on-open-water-coc... Next up - Annual cockroachdb conference: roach motel.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agoDon't know why downvoted. They can keep thinking the name is not a problem, or they can decide to grow up and change the name. Only naive engineers who know nothing about branding/marketing will think this is OK. It's fine if they're just doing their own thing, but it's a whole different story if they're operating a business
- anarazel 10y agoBecause it's unrelated to the post - which is about the architecture - and because it's brought up every single time?
- atomical 10y agoI have to think about cockroaches every time I see a post about this database. It is fair game.
- anarazel 10y agoSeriously? I reflexively think about specific, often negative, things when I read about a lot of topics. That doesn't mean those thoughts have to be shared. I think a good rough guideline is trying to only comment if that comment has a chance of advancing the discussion, answer somebody's questions, or asks for more information. Restating repeatedly made comments doesn't do that.
- sanderjd 10y agoYeah the constant obsession with the name is so weird that it really makes me wonder if there's some astroturfing campaign going on. I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but I mean seriously, the name is not that weird and the tech seems very interesting. The first time I saw comments about it I thought, "huh, yeah I guess that is sort of a weird name now that you mention it". The second time u thought, "ok I've heard this before". The third time I thought, "hmm, this is pretty tedious". And this is the 7th or so time now and I just think, "wtf is going on here?".
- farax91 10y agoI rarely comment on HN....but I just came to say that I effing love the name. Don't ever change it. Screw the VC's and middle managers.
- Quai 10y agoTell that to the MongoDB-gang.. "Mongo" is a norwegian/swedish(?) slang for a retarted person. It's derived from the word "mongoloid" which was an person with Downs or a similar syndrome. The latter word is not commonly used anymore.
- detaro 10y agoIn German as well.
- dawkins 10y agoAnd in Spanish
- user5994461 10y agoActually, mongoloid (and similar) is the word. "Mongo" alone is not that bad and it's a prefix to many words.
- pstuart 10y agocroachdb.com is available...
- sanderjd 10y agoI really don't get this meme. Who cares? Lots of projects have weird names. It's a database, not a consumer packaged good brand. Surely those who are evaluating the engineering tradeoffs in database technology aren't basing their decision making on a name.
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- user5994461 10y agoThere is an inner bias and emotion reactions to names. It always weights in in the decision. If you think you are not affected. Would you try a product named "octopussy"? Would you deploy it across your organization and gives presentation about it? P.S. Octopussy is a real tool that solves a hard problem I forgot about.
- bbcbasic 10y agoHow about git? I.e. mild British insult.