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I prefer it to, say, vectr (such contractions used to be popular) or 'barbershop' or a similar single irrelevant word name as is popular now.

• worldsayshi 3y ago
  Att least with barbershop it becomes much more searchable. "barbershop db" will very likely succeed.
  • andy99 3y ago
    Good point. It trades off searchability with understanding (or getting an indication of) what it is when you first hear of it.
    • worldsayshi 3y ago
      I think there's two ways to name things and I think the cattle or pet metaphor is useful here. If the typical user will use the thing once and then forget about it or if they are not going to keep it in mind very often make sure to give it a descriptive name. But for some things having a descriptive name might not be the most important aspect of its name. Having a findable or memorable name might be more important. And maybe sometimes giving it a descriptive name might actually become a problem because its function might change over time.