zeromus and I have on and off been toying with creating an analytical database package in C#. There are a zillion SQL databases out there, and while SQL is pretty awesome and powerful, it's not always very intuitive, and to do many reporting jobs you need to rely on using a higher-level language to glue together and manipulate the data.
While
SAS is generally unheard of to most MySQL/web monkeys, it is actually everywhere, and the SAS Institute is actually the largest privately held company. SAS is much more than a database, the word they throw around now to describe it is "Business Intelligence" and it originally started out as a statistics package (back in like, the 70s.) I would never be able to clone all of SAS, but in terms of its ability to manipulate and analyze data (without relying on an external language) it's unparalled, and unlike expensive SQL-based databases, there is no "cheap/free" version of SAS. And I would really like there to be. So I want to make one.
(To clarify: SAS has its own language which is not based even remotely on SQL. It is aimed at doing different, but similar enough things that there is some overlap.)
But... I don't know what to name it!
Any suggestions? (ps... It doesnt have to be an acronym which starts with V. None of my other projects are. Though that doesnt disqualify it.)
