+1 Vihang, I do not really like Catalog as it could create confusion with the Catalog daemon from impala.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Before we see a flood of name suggestions :) Why not just keep it > Metastore? Its already well-known in the community and easy to relate to. > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In the same vein Carter and Gunther suggested Omegastore. Pick your > > alphabet and whether it’s a catalog or a store I guess. > > > > Alan. > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Sergey Shelukhin < > ser...@hortonworks.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I’d like to suggest ZCatalog. > > > > > > On 17/7/11, 15:41, "Lefty Leverenz" <leftylever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >>> I'd like to suggest Riven. (Owen O'Malley) > > > > > > > >> How about "Flora"? (Andrew Sherman) > > > > > > > >Nice idea and thanks for introducing me to that book, Andrew. > > > > > > > >Along the same lines, how about "Honeycomb"? > > > > > > > >But since the idea is to make the metastore useful for many projects, > a > > > >generic name that starts with "Meta" would be less confusing ... even > > > >though it breaks the tradition of Apache projects having quirky names. > > > >Unfortunately "Metalog" is already in use. "Metamorph" has other > > > >connotations, but it's cool. > > > > > > > >Naming enthusiasm notwithstanding, I'm +/-0 on the idea of splitting > off > > > >the metastore into a new project: -0.5 for the sake of Hive and +0.5 > > for > > > >the greater good. Wishy-washy, that's me. > > > > > > > >-- Lefty > > > > > > > > > > > >On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Sherman < > asher...@cloudera.com> > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Owen O'Malley < > > owen.omal...@gmail.com> > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Chao Sun <sunc...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> > > and maybe a different project name? > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > Yes, it certainly needs a new name. I'd like to suggest Riven. > > > >> > > > > >> > .. Owen > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> How about "Flora"? > > > >> > > > >> (Flora is the protagonist of The Bees by Laline Paull) > > > >> > > > >> -Andrew > > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- - JRB
