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Re:Show HN: Data Diff – compare tables of any size across da... by oa335 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:56PM (#31844686)
Hi, data engineer here. There are umpteen data engineering tools that have “Data” in the title. Have you considered a different name?
Re:Show HN: Data Diff – compare tables of any size across da... by hichkaker on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:41AM (#31847681)
As a data engineer myself, totally agree about the abuse of the word “data”. What we strived for when naming was to make it self-describing as much as possible. Since the tool does one thing - diff datasets - we could name it “dataset diff” but that seemed more clunky. “table diff” wouldn’t work since we’re working on adding APIs (e.g. Stripe) as a data source to make validation of API-to-database syncs possible, and that goes beyond just tables. There is always an option to give a nondiscriptive or metaphorical name but we were concerned that would make the tool far less discoverable by potential users.