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A comment on CockroachDB 1.0.

Re:CockroachDB 1.0 by deferredposts on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:20AM (#14308839)
In a couple of years, I suspect that they will rebrand their name to just "RoachDB". It conveys the same meaning, while not being that awkward to discuss with users/clients
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Re:CockroachDB 1.0 by chimeracoder on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:30AM (#14308914)
> "RoachDB". It conveys the same meaning, while not being that awkward to discuss with users/clients

"Roach" has some other connotations as well[0], which may not help with selling to larger and enterprise clients.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roach

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