[PODLINGNAMESEARCH-16] Is Apache Drill a suitable project name

• Type: Suitable Name Search
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Podling: DRILL
• Proposed Name: Apache Drill

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption

Searched source forge and github and found no close hits.

Github had the following which had to do with Apache, practice drills or inactive game projects.


apache / incubator-drill (Java) Mirror of Apache Drill (Incubating)
danfrost / drill (Ruby) Ruby programming drills
tlein / Drill (Java) platformer
MegaSonic / Drill Shmup
Piddu / Drill (Java)

Evidence Of Registration

Searched trademarkia and USPTO for registrations. The only software
registrations for the name DRILL were

DRILL
Filed on: 5/11/2012
Educational software featuring instruction in history, math, science, languages, and art

There were other registrations for various combinations of words with
DRILL including

DRILL BUG (Abandoned)
DRILL SGT
DRILL DISK
DRILL TEAM (abandoned)
DRILL-DOWN (abandoned)
DRILL-MATE (cancelled)
DRILL QUEST (cancelled)

Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web

Searching the web for [Apache Drill] shows a number of discussions around the current incubator project as well as an petroleum industry services company called "Apache Drilling". As far as I can tell, they offer no software products.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ted Dunning
• Created: 28/Oct/12 19:46
• Updated: 27/Sep/13 01:01
• Resolved: 27/Sep/13 01:01

Description

Apache Drill is a project to produce a full table scanning query tool similar to Dremel or BigQuery from Google. Drill will hopefully produce a Dremel compatible version but will inevitably also produce alternatives due to different pressures in the open source world from those that have guided the evolution of Dremel.