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CockroachDB at least refers to their marketing line of "almost impossible to kill/take down" and the way it scales to many servers. There are few less gross insects they could have used though like Bees or Ants.

Bees and ants don't have anywhere near the same rep for invincibility. Only one of those animals is a stereotypical nuclear apocalypse survivor.

They should have went with Water Bears. It can survive even in space. Plus they sound cute (but look scary).

We have a conference room named Tardigrade.

But any of those are infinitely better than naming something after a letter of the alphabet. That would be a crazy idea, wouldn't it?

(Sorry to all the users of 'R' and 'C' and 'S' and ...) :(

Bee DB is catchy, but would probably violate some sort of Buck Rogers IP

I actually thought that CockroachDB had some relation to Apache Kafka from the name (like Apache Samza does). But nope!

GIMP is an acronym (backronym?) for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. So I guess to blame GNU if you’re not a fan of GIMP’s name.