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Everytime CockcroachDB has been on HN, the conversation has been always about their name ("what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well"), but I have been also wondering the same question.

Are they getting adoption? And what's their unique value proposition?

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> "what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well")

It think you mean “who cares, if it works well?”. Or, if you don't want that much disambiguating load being held up by a comma, “if it works well, who cares?”

I think the name is probably hurting adoption.

The creature it refers to pretty universally considered repulsive. I'm no psychologist or anything, but I would expect that to have an undue influence on even the most rational person.

I don't know anything about it, but my first impression is that it's as robust as a cockroach, able to take a lot of damage.

The main metaphor I'm familiar with is that cockroaches always come back even as you try to kill more and more of them, rather like zombies, and never in a positive way.

i'm pretty sure that's what they're going for, except that the rest of the world doesn't think so.

It will definitely not help any CIO or anyone in an organization who tries to lobby for their org to adopt cockroach db.

I would love to see more of the common mistypes of the product name.

how about PeriplanetaDB?

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