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Query Plan Caching in CockroachDB
- CyanLite2 7y agoThese folks perennially win the award for 'Dumbest Product Name Ever And Too Stubborn to Change It'.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoMongoDB is arguably worse.
- Avamander 7y agoMastodon?
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- _wmd 7y agoIt's certainly a name you can't forget easily, but there's nothing dumb about it. It's intended to be a highly survivable system, that's where the name came from -- in popular culture cockroaches are supposed to be able to survive a nuclear attack. It's a great connotation
- samcday 7y agoI think the name is great. It's weird enough to stand out from the pack, and it also communicates one of core benefits of the database versus the competitors.
- ummonk 7y agoIf it were marketed to mass consumers, the name would be be bad. Engineers though are likely to appreciate how the name is evocative of its resiliency.
- stingraycharles 7y agoTo be fair, I only understood that reference after someone explicitly told me. I might be slow to connect the dots here, but I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one.
- rat9988 7y agoAs an engineer, it only made me worried about the company's future. Their marketing skill aren't up to point if they choose such a name. (It was one of the points why we discounted using it in production)
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- dang 7y ago"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html After what must be several hundred of these, this topic is in the killfile. We're all here for something more interesting than the utterly predictable.
- thanatos_dem 7y agoThey’ve got a solution for you! https://github.com/tbg/bikesheddb https://github.com/tbg/bikesheddb
- networkimprov 7y agoHow are you using CockroachDB, and where does it shine or not?
- grumpydba 7y agoToo bad all this work is proprietary.
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