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CockroachDB does many thing really well but please for the love social acceptance please change the name.
by knodi 9y ago
CockroachDB does many thing really well but please for the love social acceptance please change the name.
- jazoom 9y agoI really hope they don't.
- karlding 9y agoYou may want to check out BikeshedDB [0], which is built exactly for this use case. [0] https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb
- bshimmin 9y agoWhat an absolutely fantastic response from one of the CockroachDB guys to the endlessly tedious naming criticism! (The only open issue on it also made me laugh.)
- dom0 9y agoMongoDB didn't. Maybe for the best?
- atomical 9y agoIs there some controversy surrounding the name MongoDB?
- flukus 9y agoA mong or mongoloid was originally a racial description/slur, then it transformed into a disability description (a downs syndrome person has mongoloid features) and finally became synonymous with stupid. It's a bit like being called NegroDB. In this time of PC outrage I honestly don't understand how it doesn't attract more attention.
- dom0 9y ago> In this time of PC outrage I honestly don't understand how it doesn't attract more attention. Possibly because the shortened slur ("mongo") isn't prevalent in English speaking countries (while PC outrage seems to be a predominantly English effect). It is in other places and in these places it gives the MongoDB project name an extremely negative connotation. TBH that's actually one of the reasons (besides the poor track record) that I never used it, avoided it and argued for software not requiring it / against using software requiring it.
- vinum_sabbathi 9y agomongo was short for humongous