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Comment by r_klancer | Hacker News Reader

Immediate reaction: Well, now there's Peloton, the fitness tech company, Peloton, the self-driving truck caravan company, and Peloton, the cluster scheduler...

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...and peloton, CMU's NVMe-first db

https://pelotondb.io/

lol "Latest development updates"

> Added notice that the project is dead

https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153...

...and https://www.peloton.com and their oil & gas software.

And Peleton the open source RDBMS.

I remember when Mozilla got such heat for “usurping” the Firebird name (due to the name already being used by Firebird BD) - they then changed to Firefox.

Does Uber get held to the same standard or do we just assume all names are overloaded now?

Where do all these names come from? Is it Latin or Greek or something?

Peloton is a somewhat common French word for "ball" that became common in English as a sports term for a grouping in a bicycle race, by way of the Tour de France. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peloton

Small detail, that's not what it means in French, it's basically used the same was as in English (a group of cyclist, group of race car drivers, etc.)

It is however pelota, ball, in Spanish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton I would guess

I searched on google, a "peloton" is "the main field or group of cyclists in a race".

In addition to what others have said here, "peloton" also means "fearless" in Finnish.

I have no idea if or why they would've used that or if they're just referring to the cycling thing, but I guess "fearless" could also be kind of fitting for this project.

Kraken was already taken[0]

[0] https://github.com/uber/kraken

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