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Re:CockroachDB 2.0 released by is_true on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:04AM (#16755390)
I think the opposite. The name makes it easier to describe what it does to people that doesn't understand the technical vocabulary.
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Re:CockroachDB 2.0 released by hunterjrj on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:10AM (#16755461)
In this case, with the connotations that the name "coach roach" is associated with, you'd be wrong:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/molly-reynolds/why-brand-name...

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Re:CockroachDB 2.0 released by megaman22 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:53AM (#16755890)
The only connotations I've got with cockroaches is resiliency, and maybe hissing?
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Re:CockroachDB 2.0 released by rhencke on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:30PM (#16756314)
I guess that does explain the custom support for

    PRAGMA hissing_noise();
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