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PinkDB is an acronym for “processing in knowing database”. In this blog post, I tell you how I came up with the acronym and its meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I start writing a blog post, I usually only have a vague idea of the title. I have to change it more than once. The Pink Database Paradigm (PinkDB)<\/a> was no different. An early version of the title was based on the acronym “uDBasPE” for “use the database as processing engine”. I liked the meaning, but I knew the acronym was unfit. I had difficulties remembering it myself, and the first three letters pointed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a customer project, we did it the other way around and named a code generator after a female first name. A few days later we had a meaning for the acronym. Nobody in the project remembered the meaning, but everyone remembered the name and most didn’t even know it was an acronym. That was an inspiring experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came up with “Pink” when I thought about the colouring of the circles in the figure of the architectural layers.\u00a0Pink is the color of my wife’s car and it can be found in many places in our home. I wouldn’t wear pink clothes at conferences if I didn’t like the colour. The partial meaning of “processing in… database” for PinkDB was obvious. I googled for “PinkDB” and searched for “#PinkDB” on Twitter. Of course, I found something, but nothing conflicting. Hence “PinkDB”.\u00a0I just had to find\u00a0a reasonably appropriate adjective beginning with “k”. I grabbed my “Langenscheidts Handw\u00f6rterbuch Englisch-Deutsch \/ Deutsch-Englisch”, which I’ve never touched in years and looked for English words starting with “k”. Only 5 pages… not many candidates.\u00a0 And “knowing” was my choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knowing as an adjective with meaning intelligent, clever, shrewd, smart. So, what makes the database “knowing”? – The optimizer. It’s the core of a good processing engine. Using the database as a processing engine is a key feature of PinkDB.\u00a0Pink it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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