Interesting idea. What all parameters of these constructs should be part of the descriptive vocabulary? Size, speed, complexity, efficiency, stability, level of automation, time in service, scalability, maintainability, hardware environment, standardization, modularity, flexibility...? The mind boggles at the multitude of possible forms a database can take. A vocabulary that would describe all such combinations of parameters would be quite large. I, for one, have enough difficulty remembering all the terminology we currently use. Learning hundreds, maybe thousands of new words just to be able to refer to every obscure combination of properties that someone has managed to assemble with a single word is not time I would care to invest.

I do like tiddlybase, though. Maybe ittybase, for the home recipe or telephone number file?