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A comment on CockroachDB beta-20161013. Parent comment

Re:CockroachDB beta-20161013 by atmosx on Thursday February 16, 2017 @11:58AM (#13661461)
I'm not a native English speaker and have troubles pronouncing "cockroach". In my view the naming is rather unfortunate.
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Re:CockroachDB beta-20161013 by artursapek on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:08PM (#13661571)
Do you find it easier to pronounce "postgres"?
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Re:CockroachDB beta-20161013 by atmosx on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:38PM (#13662354)
Yes but I'm not sure the comparison stands. PSQL was created in 1996 and it happens to be one of the 2-3 most common/famous databases ever made as far as I can tell.

If you're postgres, it doesn't really matter because you're already there.

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Re:CockroachDB beta-20161013 by mixedCase on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:12PM (#13661602)
Not him, but as a native spanish speaker "postgres" rolls of the tongue more easily than "cockroachdb" or just "cockroach".
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