I'm brand new to this discussion. I like Blob and don't mind "bucket".
"Collection" has so many class implementations that it is bound to be
confusing.
Same for "Container".
Instead of "bucket" we could use:
can
canister
cask - I like this one
hod
kettle - I like this one also especially for a "blob"
pail
pot
scuttle
vat
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On 26/08/10 08:13 -0400, Tomas Sedovic wrote:
>Hey Marios,
>
>I'm for keeping the word "blob". Every dev already knows what that is --
it's used in databases, git, et cetera.
>
>However, I don't like "container" as much. If I just saw the two words
without a context, I would perhaps consider them synonyms (blob ==
"container for bits").
>
>My suggestion is "collection", if you can afford such a general name. In
my mind it's much clearer that blobs form (or belong to) collections rather
than containers or buckets.
I don't want to 'troll' or something, but I'm not very sure about
term 'collection', because we already using it in API.
So to avoid confusion in terms, I'm voting for 'bucket' or 'directory'.
-- Michal
>Thomas
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>Subject: 'A Blob by any other name'...
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>Hi, I have so far been using the nouns 'Container' and 'Blob' for the
>entities in our (developing) cloud storage API. It was always the
>intention to change these at some point so I thought it would be a good
>idea to get some input from the wider group. A 'blob' is a uniquely
>named collection of data, stored as a single entity (in S3/CloudFiles
>'Object'). A 'container' is a uniquely named grouping of blobs (in S3
>'Bucket' and CloudFiles 'Container').
>
>So, any ideas about what we should be calling these 'things'? Do we need
>to change the current names at all?
>
>marios
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