Cassandra

Doubted ancient oracle

Cassandra was a Trojan princess in Greek mythology cursed by Apollo to prophesy truly but never be believed.

Her name has become a byword for those who warn of coming troubles but are dismissed: He played Cassandra, predicting the housing crash years before it happened.

The name is also used as a given name for women.

In computing, Apache Cassandra is a distributed database system. (Lowercase cassandra is the generic term for an unheeded prophet.)

mythology

Troy

Ancient Anatolian city

PriamFinal Trojan king
ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
curseInvoked harm through words

Greek mythology · Iliad · Homer · Trojan War · priestess · temple · Agamemnon · Helen · Paris · Achilles

archetype

warning

Alert about danger

pessimistOne expecting negative outcomes
whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
alarmistOne who overstates threats

harbinger · omen · foreboding · prescient · tragic figure · foreshadowing · inevitable · unheeded · prophet

database

NoSQL

Schema-free database systems

ApacheSouthwestern indigenous nation
distributedDivided and given out
scalableAble to increase capacity

cluster · node · replication · partition · big data · fault-tolerant · decentralized · Hadoop

name

feminine

Pertaining to women

Greek originDerived from ancient Hellas
AlexandraName meaning defender
SandraFeminine Greek-origin name

Cassie · Cass · literary · classical · tragic · beautiful · prophetic · timeless

Cassandra

Troy

warning

NoSQL

feminine

Cassandra

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