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Here's a nitpick: It's key/value store, not key-value store. A key-value store would only store "key values."

NonNefarious 4y ago
I love how somebody modded INFORMATION down. And here we were just making fun of Reddit for this kind of infantile behavior.
- nemothekid 4y ago
  Because it's bike shedding. The post is about some pretty interesting database internals and a comment nitpicking about the semantics of language, which have no relevance to the article content, isn't constructive.
  - NonNefarious 4y ago
    - gqewogpdqa 4y ago
      "bike shedding" is a well known term of art in many places. That said, it might not be as prevalent as I think (or obviously OP thought). But, I was able to find that it's quite common with a quick Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
twic 4y ago
I don't know of any rule of English grammar that would lead to this interpretation. If you do, you should immediately write to the maintainers of these websites: https://redis.com/nosql/key-value-databases/ https://redis.com/nosql/key-value-databases/ https://www.mongodb.com/databases/key-value-database https://www.mongodb.com/databases/key-value-database https://aws.amazon.com/nosql/key-value/ https://aws.amazon.com/nosql/key-value/ https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4/learning/why/ https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4/learning/why/ https://riak.com/products/riak-kv/ https://riak.com/products/riak-kv/ https://rocksdb.org/ https://rocksdb.org/ https://github.com/google/leveldb https://github.com/google/leveldb http://www.memcached.org/ http://www.memcached.org/
gqewogpdqa 4y ago
Haha. Key-value is meant (IMO) to show the connection between the key and the value. You're right, it's not a "key value" store, where "key" is an adjective modifying "value" to show that is only stores the most important values. The "-", again IMO, shows that there is a mapping between each key and each value. But geez, I think we knew what was meant :-)
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atombender 4y ago
The Chicago manual of style tells us that one should hyphenate compound nouns where both nouns are of equal importance; common examples include "philosopher-king" and "nurse-practitioner". Besides, the slash is arguably more often used to mean "or" (think "he/she") than "and".

I love how somebody modded INFORMATION down. And here we were just making fun of Reddit for this kind of infantile behavior.

nemothekid 4y ago
Because it's bike shedding. The post is about some pretty interesting database internals and a comment nitpicking about the semantics of language, which have no relevance to the article content, isn't constructive.
- NonNefarious 4y ago
  - gqewogpdqa 4y ago
    "bike shedding" is a well known term of art in many places. That said, it might not be as prevalent as I think (or obviously OP thought). But, I was able to find that it's quite common with a quick Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

twic 4y ago

I don't know of any rule of English grammar that would lead to this interpretation. If you do, you should immediately write to the maintainers of these websites: https://redis.com/nosql/key-value-databases/ https://redis.com/nosql/key-value-databases/ https://www.mongodb.com/databases/key-value-database https://www.mongodb.com/databases/key-value-database https://aws.amazon.com/nosql/key-value/ https://aws.amazon.com/nosql/key-value/ https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4/learning/why/ https://etcd.io/docs/v3.4/learning/why/ https://riak.com/products/riak-kv/ https://riak.com/products/riak-kv/ https://rocksdb.org/ https://rocksdb.org/ https://github.com/google/leveldb https://github.com/google/leveldb http://www.memcached.org/ http://www.memcached.org/

gqewogpdqa 4y ago

Haha. Key-value is meant (IMO) to show the connection between the key and the value. You're right, it's not a "key value" store, where "key" is an adjective modifying "value" to show that is only stores the most important values. The "-", again IMO, shows that there is a mapping between each key and each value. But geez, I think we knew what was meant :-)

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atombender 4y ago

The Chicago manual of style tells us that one should hyphenate compound nouns where both nouns are of equal importance; common examples include "philosopher-king" and "nurse-practitioner". Besides, the slash is arguably more often used to mean "or" (think "he/she") than "and".