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Re: Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search

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Seems cool, but the name should be changed. There is already an open source tool called ElephantDB created my Nathan Marz (Clojure, Big Data, Hadoop guru)

Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just sure that if this were my creation I would want people to let me know if I was potentially walking into brand confusion.

Re: Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search

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post #3

Seems cool, but the name should be changed. There is already an open source tool called ElephantDB created my Nathan Marz (Clojure, Big Data, Hadoop guru) Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just sure that if this were my creation I would want people to let me know if I was potentially walking into brand confusion.

There is also John McCarthy's database-like language, Elephant 2000. Elephants never forget, so I think there will be many future databases named Elephant.

Re: Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search

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post #3

Seems cool, but the name should be changed. There is already an open source tool called ElephantDB created my Nathan Marz (Clojure, Big Data, Hadoop guru) Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just sure that if this were my creation I would want people to let me know if I was potentially walking into brand confusion.

There is also this, http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/

Re: Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search

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post #2

Wah. I was hoping for something more interesting than S3 for persistence of the key / values...as kenneth seems to have very novel and interesting takes on things.

Unless I'm mistaken, it's using ElasticSearch, not S3. It's, effectively, a niche ElasticSearch API tailored to key/value storage.

Re: Elephant - Persistent Key-Value store with Full Text Search

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post #3

Seems cool, but the name should be changed. There is already an open source tool called ElephantDB created my Nathan Marz (Clojure, Big Data, Hadoop guru) Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just sure that if this were my creation I would want people to let me know if I was potentially walking into brand confusion.

Not a name, but PostgreSQL has long used an elephant logo.
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