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So there’s TigerData and TigerBeetle. I wish they would have chosen a different fast cat…


I know what you mean, but still Tiger Beetles are an insect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_beetle


I thought about that, but, but it’s not the comparison of the second word, it’s the strength of the first. Read this list:

* Tiger Shark * Tiger Beetle * Tiger Data * Tiger Games * Tiger Woods * Tiger Attack * Tiger Snake * Wild Tiger

Only one stands out as not like the others. Tiger is too strong a word. The second word disappears.


Now they just need to rebrand as Tiger Direct!



WildcatDB, though uses a cheetah for the logo RocksDB uses an I believe tiger for the logo as well. Postgres with the elephant, MariaDB with the seal.


Small corrections: RocksDB's logo is a cheetah. MariaDB's is a sea lion, which is similar to a seal, but is delightfully relevant to this thread due to sounding more cat-like.


Don't forget Tigris https://www.tigrisdata.com/


they even have a similar palette on their website, I could have sworn they were from the same company


I'd like to see more references to biological taxonomies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera


Too bad they weren’t French, or a new breed of Riot Grrl databases. Le Tigre DB rolls off the tongue.


Finally, a database that we can query to determine who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?


As long as the DB doesn’t show its disco, I think we’ll be OK even without an answer.


We chose the Tiger back in April 2017.

Also TigerBeetle is an insect, not a fast cat.


> We chose the Tiger back in April 2017.

Fair. But a mascot is not a name. I hope you can see why I bring this up?

> Also TigerBeetle is an insect, not a fast cat.

It is? Damn. I thought a Tiger Beetle was a six foot long cat wearing costume wings and a springs for antennae?


And TigerGraph, too!




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