It is. We called this new engine “SNEL” as an acronym for “SQL Native Execution for LLVM”. Well, that’s the excuse, actually we chose Snel because that means “

It is. We called this new engine “SNEL” as an acronym for “SQL Native Execution for LLVM”. Well, that’s the excuse, actually we chose Snel because that means “fast” in Dutch and the name seemed right to us. from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09449.pdf#page=6 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09449.pdf#page=6