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CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by ngrilly »

assface wrote: post #13
krenoten wrote: post #4

This is one of the most exciting DB's coming into the world, and I've had a lot of fun watching progress from the sidelines! Keep kicking ass!

> This is one of the most exciting DB's coming into the world, and I've had a lot of fun watching progress from the sidelines! I'm going to have to disagree. The German HyPer DBMS has a lot more interesting ideas. Cockroach is just distributed MVCC from the 1980s on top of a key/value store. MemSQL also has a new LLVM architecture written by the HipHop VM inventor that they poached from Facebook.

HyPer and MemSQL are in-memory databases. CockroachDB is not. This is a big difference.

And according to HyPer home page, HyPer doesn't look distributed, which is another big difference.

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

troymc wrote: post #35
thebiglebrewski wrote: post #3

Honestly as a new yorker the name of your company and product and the title of this blog post make me cringe!

The "mouse" (computer hardware) has an equally bad name, and yet...

You think mice and cockroaches evoke the same emotions in the average human?

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by mwambua »

diskcat wrote: post #36

But why the name?

Cockroaches have the ability to survive some of the most difficult situations... they've been around for the past 320 million years.

That's what they expect from their db... the ability to survive huge failures whilst maintaining data integrity.

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by simoncion »

Spiritus wrote: post #38

I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative. Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn't care less about the name. But apparently I'm in a minority...?

> I don't really get all the whining about the name...

Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with all the hand-wringing. Dunno if it's a generational thing, or just a peculiarity of this particular echo chamber. [0] None of folks at the jobs that I've worked cared about the name of a tool as long as it was good.

[0] I do take comfort in the fact that the hand-wringing is a tiny slice of all of the conversation attached to the submission.

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by duaneb »

endymi0n wrote: post #33

Like both idea and traction, but I'm taking bets how long it takes for the investors to "convince" the team of a rebranding. I mean imagine anyone suggesting "CocktoachDB" in an enterprise setting... Guess we'll see the rIse of the all new and shiny HydraDB soon, mythological creatures always go well :)

Traditionally, suggesting using "subversion" would get you raised eyebrows.

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by skoczymroczny »

Spiritus wrote: post #38

I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative. Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn't care less about the name. But apparently I'm in a minority...?

I think it's more about the senior management and people like marketing, who aren't technical. That could go well: "Yeah so we're ditching MS SQL Server Pro and instead will go with Cockroach from now on"

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by bru »

bogomipz wrote: post #43

Is this an implementation of Google's Spanner? I looked the projects github page but didn't see much in the way of project's origins.

The designed is compared against Spanner's several time in the interesting design doc: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...

Re: CockroachDB Skitters into Beta

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Post by matt4077 »

Spiritus wrote: post #38

I don't really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative. Besides, they could've called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn't care less about the name. But apparently I'm in a minority...?

It's an excellent name! It's telling a story, it's memorable, evocative. I think people complaining are all complaining on other people's behalf, i. e. they think others are going to be offended/put off/etc.

It's like that test where men were shown pictures of women and asked to (a) pick the one they thought was the most beautiful and (b) guess which one others would pick most often. Result: they pick the girl-next-door for (a) but think others will all go for the pornstar-look.

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