Re:NuoDB another NewSQL database.
by jimstarkey on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:34PM
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Marketing statements notwithstanding, the name change was the result of something really boring -- a name conflict with another company.
Oh, "New-oh dee bee".
To the "NewSQL" term, I don't really have a problem with it... from their "how it works" it sounds like they are genuinely doing something interesting and cool with SQL. I have no qualms with them calling it "NewSQL".
I don't know why marketing terms get people so mad, sometimes they make sense.
I'd also point out that the first few times people used "NoSQL", I imagine there were comments along these same lines talking about how silly it was.
It isn't like they named it "WebScaleSQL" :)