We have Hadoop meetups that brings awareness about Hadoop Ecosystem to an extent or that discusses about the future enhancements in Hadoop and products and things that can be done. But there is no proper meetup that can provide perspective of a real Hadoop Developer to the current market that can address any level of knowledge seeker. Also there is no meetup group where one actually working on Hadoop Ecosystem can discuss common issues they face and ask for help. This meetup group overcomes thes …

Welcome to The Sonora Software Developers Group! We are an informal group focused on educating developers on all areas of software development. Topics include development languages, frameworks, tools, techniques, best practices, and much more. We provide a face to face forum and encourage peer learning and networking. We maintain a focus on development practices, demonstrations, and show & tell in developer-centric interactive sessions. Meetings are free - please join us! * Network with other …

This group is focused on educating developers on how to use the Microsoft .NET platform for web and windows development. Topics include all aspects of development for desktop, browser and web services, as well as architectural choices and application development frameworks. We provide a face to face forum and encourage peer learning and networking. We maintain a focus on development practices, demonstrations and show & tell in developer-centric interactive sessions. Meetings are free - please …

Welcome to the meetup area of the Northern California Oracle Users Group, the most active and longest running Oracle users group in the world! You’ve never heard of us before? Well, now you have! NoCOUG has more than 500 enthusiastic members, some of whom have remained members for 25 years! We organize four full-day conferences around the bay area every year and produce a wonderful publication called the NoCOUG Journal. Check out some of our pictures at http://www.meetup.com/Northern-California- …

Ideas, learning, experimentation, and conversation about graph data and its value to businesses and consumers alike. Located in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley's Data Corner, the Lab explores the application of graph theory and emerging database and visualization technologies.

A forum for users and aficionados of MySQL to get together and talk about their favorite open source database!

Bay.Net is an open and independent forum for evaluating and extending the knowledge of the .NET architecture, technologies, and tools. All developers are welcome, regardless of your preferred platform or language. We host meetings and activities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the North Bay and East Bay areas.

For SFBay area developers interested in distributed discussing CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached

Discussion of NewSQL technologies and their use cases. Technologies of interest include: Hosted: Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Database.com, Xeround, FathomDB; Stand-alone: HadlerSocket, Akiban, Clustrix, Drizzle, GenieDB, ScalArc, CodeFutures, Schooner MySQL, Tokutek, ScaleBase, NimbusDB, Continuent, VoltDB and Translattice

We meet monthly at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Meetings are free and include pizza and drinks - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Get questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn from the experts and meet your peers * Enjoy pizza, drinks, and valuable giveaways

The purpose of this meet-up is to focus on developer productivity tools:  a place we can showcase and share ideas to make life easier for us developers...  although SQL / SQL Server is mentioned prominently, this is due to the focus on data, but building complete applications which are based on SQL are also fair game.  The mention of SQL-Hero is not because anyone needs to have a working knowledge of this product or that it will receive prominent focus, but because Joel will inevitably demonstra …

A group of professional FoxPro and database developers interested in exteding Visual FoxPro and other database software development platforms.

San Francisco SQL Server User Group We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Microsoft office in San Francisco. Meetings are free - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Have your SQL Server questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn valuable information for career development * Enjoy dinner, drinks, and valuable software giveaways 6:30 to 7:00 pm – Introductions, fo …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and ALL Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data portfolio. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

This is a group for people interested in learning all there is to know about Google's new location-aware information application called Field Trip. It's particularly useful for developers interested in adding their own content to the Field Trip database and developing applications that will run with or incorporate the Field Trip app.

We discuss all things Big Data including tools, use cases and especially opportunities around this emerging area of large scale data

Silicon Valley PostgreSQL Users Group

Exploring flash acceleration for in-memory, NoSQL, and relational data stores. Join us for discussions, presentations, brainstorming and more.

This User Group meets to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. You will learn from the experts, meet your peers, and enjoy pizza and drinks at each meeting.  Meetings are free, and are held monthly in either San Francisco or Mountain View. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

This group is based in San Francisco. User group for MariaDB.

This group provides a forum in Silicon Valley for discussion for NoSQL technology and solutions to common problems.

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

Monthly hack sessions at Citizen Space.

Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

Discussion of nosql technologies and their use cases.

This group meets monthly to discuss different ways to use Cassandra to scale your website