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So there’s TigerData and TigerBeetle. I wish they would have chosen a different fast cat…

• pcthrowaway 1y ago
  Also WiredTiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiredTiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiredTiger
• kajecounterhack 1y ago
  I know what you mean, but still Tiger Beetles are an insect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_beetle
  • apgwoz 1y ago
    I thought about that, but, but it’s not the comparison of the second word, it’s the strength of the first. Read this list: * Tiger Shark * Tiger Beetle * Tiger Data * Tiger Games * Tiger Woods * Tiger Attack * Tiger Snake * Wild Tiger Only one stands out as not like the others. Tiger is too strong a word. The second word disappears.
  • sidewndr46 1y ago
    Now they just need to rebrand as Tiger Direct!
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• alexpadula 1y ago
  WildcatDB, though uses a cheetah for the logo RocksDB uses an I believe tiger for the logo as well. Postgres with the elephant, MariaDB with the seal.
  • evanelias 1y ago
    Small corrections: RocksDB's logo is a cheetah. MariaDB's is a sea lion, which is similar to a seal, but is delightfully relevant to this thread due to sounding more cat-like.
• tao_oat 1y ago
  And TigerGraph, too!
• andrenotgiant 1y ago
  Don't forget Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/ https://www.tigrisdata.com/
• akulkarni 1y ago
  We chose the Tiger back in April 2017. Also TigerBeetle is an insect, not a fast cat.
  • apgwoz 1y ago
    > We chose the Tiger back in April 2017. Fair. But a mascot is not a name. I hope you can see why I bring this up? > Also TigerBeetle is an insect, not a fast cat. It is? Damn. I thought a Tiger Beetle was a six foot long cat wearing costume wings and a springs for antennae?
• agos 1y ago
  they even have a similar palette on their website, I could have sworn they were from the same company
• Nezteb 1y ago
  I'd like to see more references to biological taxonomies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera
  • apgwoz 1y ago
    Too bad they weren’t French, or a new breed of Riot Grrl databases. Le Tigre DB rolls off the tongue.
    • evanelias 1y ago
      Finally, a database that we can query to determine who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
      • apgwoz 1y ago
        As long as the DB doesn’t show its disco, I think we’ll be OK even without an answer.