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Just about every news item on HN related to cockroachdb has had this comment up at the top. We get it. (I do NOT work for the company.) Some people don't like

Just about every news item on HN related to cockroachdb has had this comment up at the top. We get it. (I do NOT work for the company.) Some people don't like the name. I'm sure the company has heard it over and over. Yet they haven't changed it. At some point, these people who constantly protest the name should realize they've been heard and let the discussion focus on something other than their pet peeve that has nothing to do with the underlying tech. Yes, we realize you have a problem with the name. We realized it a dozen news items ago. But since this is HackerNews, you'd think other aspects -- distributed transactions and the approach they took, the fact that this is in Go (!) and the benchmarks on it, the single executable that incorporates the C++ RocksDB embedded leveldb, etc, etc -- would take top billing.

ardit33 9y ago
It gives a major insight on how the developers don't take community feedback seriously, or at all. This is an issue of basic hygiene of marketing. The name is obnoxious. It is like being a great developer and showing up in a interview looking/ dressed like a homeless person. Yes, we get it, you can be all talented and such, but people will have a visceral response to the lack of basic hygiene and not want to associate with that person. In this case it is yet another database.
- DocSavage 9y ago
  It would be a sad day if creative people were forced to consider every person who may find their work or title objectionable. The Pixar film "Ratatouille" was a wonderful script but some people could not get over the fact that a rat was a chef preparing food. The screenwriters had the option of changing a fairly significant feature of their film to appease these critics or just say that some people won't watch it. I'm glad they chose the latter. If you really need a distributed database that supports transactions and don't evaluate CockroachDB because of the name, I think that's more on you than on them.

ardit33 9y ago

It gives a major insight on how the developers don't take community feedback seriously, or at all. This is an issue of basic hygiene of marketing. The name is obnoxious. It is like being a great developer and showing up in a interview looking/ dressed like a homeless person. Yes, we get it, you can be all talented and such, but people will have a visceral response to the lack of basic hygiene and not want to associate with that person. In this case it is yet another database.

DocSavage 9y ago
It would be a sad day if creative people were forced to consider every person who may find their work or title objectionable. The Pixar film "Ratatouille" was a wonderful script but some people could not get over the fact that a rat was a chef preparing food. The screenwriters had the option of changing a fairly significant feature of their film to appease these critics or just say that some people won't watch it. I'm glad they chose the latter. If you really need a distributed database that supports transactions and don't evaluate CockroachDB because of the name, I think that's more on you than on them.