It's play on the word "autotune".

Otters are also vicious animals, which is an important trait to have if you are working with databases: https://youtu.be/J7f6s2g8C0I

Linguistics nerd answer: sounds like "autotune" if you have the caught-cot vowel merger and alveolar flapping:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping

Tried and true pattern (see: DBeaver)