QLDB = Quantum Ledger Database
Seeing 'quantum' in that acronym is so cringeworthy. I'd prefer Immutable Ledger Database, or a word that shares more with the technology than media hyperbole.
Seeing 'quantum' in that acronym is so cringeworthy. I'd prefer Immutable Ledger Database, or a word that shares more with the technology than media hyperbole.
> Of a change, sudden or discrete, without intermediate stages.
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quantum#Adjective
It makes perfect sense if you know what the word means.
Case in point, the whole reason I clicked through on this was becausei thought it might be some earlier quantum database.
Like it or not, "quantum" has accumulated a) more connotations that make it less likely to be interpreted as "sudden or discrete" by most people, and b) an association with other pseudosciency buzzwords that don't have a very good reputation in product names.
IBM has spent a bit of money drumming up all things Quantum (while being at most moderately more successful at actual useful QC implementation), it would be ironic if some of the buzz (in people who think Quantum is the "next big thing" without knowing how actual current QC would benefit them) now transfers to something useful and real but not-QC
I accept that it may just a terrible choice of name that is not deliberately intended to confuse though.
If Quantum computers become a thing, then coining a new database 'QLDB', is a bad idea, despite what 'quantum' may mean in the dictionary.