Re: Renaming WebDatabase and WebSimpleDB

Web-Indexed-Storage

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>wrote:

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> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
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>  Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>, 2009-11-30 14:46 -0800:
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>>  I agree with Mike, but I'd also note that "Web Key-Value Database" could
>>> easily be confused with WebStorage given that it also uses a Key-Value
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>> True but we know the distinction is that Web Storage does not use
>> a database.
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> Do we make naming decisions considering just us WG members as its audience
> or that of the general public? I think the general public is well within its
> rights to treat Web Storage as a persistence technology that seems to be
> like "Key-Value" database.
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> I want to emphasize here that I think "key-value" in the title misses the
> subtlety - it is the use of index sequential access that is at the heart of
> WebSimpleDB, and not key-value storage.
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> Nikunj
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