I know that was rhetorical, but Couch is connotationally neutral AFAIK, and comes from "cluster of unreliable commodity hardware".[1]
At least, it's miles ahead of Cockroach or Rust or even Mongo.
At least, it's miles ahead of Cockroach or Rust or even Mongo.
I'm not marketing guru, but maybe cockroach could have been more palatable by calling it "RCH, some call it roach, because it was named after its persistence" ?