Anybody know why they changed the name? Nimbus seems more pronounceable.

ericfrenkiel · on Nov 7, 2011

Nimbus Data, a maker of of flash storage, wasn't too happy about NimbusDB and the brand confusion

rkalla · on Nov 7, 2011

To add validity to their new term "NewSQL" possibly? (I don't know, just guessing).

To the "NewSQL" term, I don't really have a problem with it... from their "how it works" it sounds like they are genuinely doing something interesting and cool with SQL. I have no qualms with them calling it "NewSQL".

I don't know why marketing terms get people so mad, sometimes they make sense.

I'd also point out that the first few times people used "NoSQL", I imagine there were comments along these same lines talking about how silly it was.

It isn't like they named it "WebScaleSQL" :)

jimstarkey · on Nov 7, 2011

Marketing statements notwithstanding, the name change was the result of something really boring -- a name conflict with another company.

Oh, "New-oh dee bee".