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I exclaimed out loud when I read about MySQL. I never liked the name before, and now I do.
by block_dagger 3y ago
I exclaimed out loud when I read about MySQL. I never liked the name before, and now I do.
- Crespyl 3y agoAnd MariaDB is named after her sister.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoAnd MaxDb is named after her brother
- signalToNose 3y agoNow I’m curious about MongoDb
- ivolimmen 3y ago... and they have an OnlyFans?
- wiradikusuma 3y agoSame here. I always thought it was lazy naming, like "My" + some topic. Now I respect the name.
- card_zero 3y agoOh it's the Finnish girl's name, like Little My from the Moomins. That is definitely an improvement, reading it as the possessive pronoun makes it look like the name of some pushy preinstalled crapware. YourSQLExperience. EnjoyData. MyCloudStorageIDidntAskFor.
- anttihaapala 3y agoWell, there is even more to it. First of all the name My is (Finland-)Swedish, the Finnish name of the character is Pikku Myy. The Finnish name registry contains only ~2 mentions before the publication of the hugely popular first Moomin book (and none for Myy) so this girls' name and hence the name in the MySQL really comes from the Moomin stories. And finally, the name of Little My is a play on the Greek small letter mu, i.e. μ, and you'd be closer to the real idea and original pronunciation if you thought of it as MuSQL (μSQL) instead ;)
- aitchnyu 3y agoOne guy named Lucene (db behind Elasticsearch) after wife's middle name and Hadoop after his kid's elephant toy.
- timeon 3y agoI wonder what is proper pronunciation.
- mrbait 3y agoIt seems to be Swedish in origin, in which case the closest English equivalent would be "mee" or "mew". Roughly speaking, the <y> here is close to what is traditionally transcribed in English as [i:], except rounded, i.e. [y:]. Many caveats apply, this probably being Finnish Swedish (which should have the same or a similar vowel), my Swedish being rather rudimentary, etc.