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Even minor things like picking a product name had impact. They also implemented most desirable features (the gotcha was that they were half assed, but if your e
by takeda 9y ago
Even minor things like picking a product name had impact. They also implemented most desirable features (the gotcha was that they were half assed, but if your evaluation was also half assed as is usually done you won't notice it)
I actually chose it back in 2010 project and on paper MongoDB looked better than other databases. MongoDB name as they mentioned originates from Humongous Database giving false impression that it can scale well.
- GenericsMotors 9y ago> Even minor things like picking a product name had impact. They get zero points for this. It pretty much reads as "Retard"DB in Portuguese, Spanish, and IIRC German.
- sigzero 9y agoNot that it is 100% reliable but I put "mongo" in Google translate for all three of those languages and it comes out "mongo". Unless mongo is "slang" in those languages.
- GenericsMotors 9y agoIt is slang, short for "mongoloide". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mongo Interesting this isn't the case with English.
- zimpenfish 9y agoEnglish would be "mong". Probably because we got lazy with our abusive terms in the 70s and 80s. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mong#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mong#English (Etymology 3)