And MariaDB is named after her sister.

And MaxDb is named after her brother

Now I’m curious about MongoDb

MongoDB only pawn in game of life.

Santa Maria!

... and they have an OnlyFans?

One guy named Lucene (db behind Elasticsearch) after wife's middle name and Hadoop after his kid's elephant toy.

Same here. I always thought it was lazy naming, like "My" + some topic. Now I respect the name.

Oh it's the Finnish girl's name, like Little My from the Moomins. That is definitely an improvement, reading it as the possessive pronoun makes it look like the name of some pushy preinstalled crapware. YourSQLExperience. EnjoyData. MyCloudStorageIDidntAskFor.

Well, there is even more to it.

First of all the name My is (Finland-)Swedish, the Finnish name of the character is Pikku Myy.

The Finnish name registry contains only ~2 mentions before the publication of the hugely popular first Moomin book (and none for Myy) so this girls' name and hence the name in the MySQL really comes from the Moomin stories.

And finally, the name of Little My is a play on the Greek small letter mu, i.e. μ, and you'd be closer to the real idea and original pronunciation if you thought of it as MuSQL (μSQL) instead ;)

I wonder what is proper pronunciation.

It seems to be Swedish in origin, in which case the closest English equivalent would be "mee" or "mew".

Roughly speaking, the <y> here is close to what is traditionally transcribed in English as [i:], except rounded, i.e. [y:].

Many caveats apply, this probably being Finnish Swedish (which should have the same or a similar vowel), my Swedish being rather rudimentary, etc.