It's really smart. It's a document database, so they call it DocumentDB. It's better than calling it something like Dolphin and then explaining that it's a document database. Simple and clear is a good thing.
Airport, Bootcamp, Safari, Time Machine, FaceTime, Grand Central Dispatch, QuickTime...
and I won't even start on the open source side of things...
"Oh cool, which document database is it? MongoDB? CouchDB? Cassandra?"
"It's DocumentDB!"
"...."