<story><title>CockroachDB Skitters into Beta</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-skitters-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Spiritus</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t really get all the whining about the name, I even kind of like it. It fits well with their narrative.&lt;p&gt;Besides, they could&amp;#x27;ve called it PoopDB and I still would use it if it survived a nuclear blast and had joins. I couldn&amp;#x27;t care less about the name. But apparently I&amp;#x27;m in a minority...?</text></comment>
<story><title>CockroachDB Skitters into Beta</title><url>https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-skitters-beta/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been watching this project for a while. This is very cool. I think they&amp;#x27;ve made a lot of very good design choices.†&lt;p&gt;Oh, and the client drivers page should probably also list pgx (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jackc&amp;#x2F;pgx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jackc&amp;#x2F;pgx&lt;/a&gt;), which is a nice, fast PostgreSQL client that doesn&amp;#x27;t use the not-as-nice database&amp;#x2F;sql package.&lt;p&gt;___&lt;p&gt;† The name being the only exception; I don&amp;#x27;t have bug phobia at all, but cockroaches are just icky.</text></comment>