Re: Renaming WebDatabase and WebSimpleDB

how about "Indexed Sequential Web Database", losing the acronym, even  
if familiar to those who work with databases? (not web-indexed,  
however...)

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:11 PM, ext Michael Nordman wrote:

> Web-Indexed-Storage
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> 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
> model.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Nikunj
> http://o-micron.blogspot.com
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