To provide a venue for Vertica Analytic database users to share ideas, tips and solutions among their peers. To encourage you to make more out of the data you already have.  Big data users can meet to network and get a fresh perspective on things. Vertica was just voted #1 in big data!! http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Big_Data_Market_Size_and_Vendor_Revenues

The focus of this MySQL group will be: 1. Learn as much as possible about MySQL from experts in the field. From High Availability, Clustering and Replication to Storage Engine technology. 2. Network with others interested in MySQL. 3. Have some good conversation about the world's most popular open source database. All levels of experience welcome!

A group dedicated to learning and educating about NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Redis, Tokyo, and many others. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lanosql

Maps in your Apps... The Esri Dev Meet Up is a "technical social" where developers can meet and discuss all things geospatial, geolocation, spatial analysis, and GIS. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome. It's right after work, it's free, we've got food and drinks for you, a bunch of Esri swag, and raffles too. Here is our developer website where you can learn more, download and code against our APIs for free, check out apps and code samples, and use cloud-based storage and web serv …

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!

Visual FoxPro San Diego Meetup started in 1994 as a non-profit group called "The FoxPro Developers Network of San Diego". We have monthly meetings in which we share our knowledge and experience about Visual FoxPro and all the multiple databases it supports in addition to itself: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. The group focuses on desktop applications as well as web solutions. We currently meet in the back room at Denny's Restaurant (4280 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92117), space …

The Malibu SQL Server User Group is the informal meeting of a group of SQL Server enthusiasts in Malibu and surrounding areas, California. This group is intended to facilitate knowledge and expertise sharing through community and expert SQL Server practitioners, in the full range of SQL Server topics, including Business Intelligence. Through these meetings we encourage professional networking. The meetings are free of charge and held the second Wednesday of every month, built based on the commun …

The San Diego SQL Server Users Group (SDSQLUG) provides professional opportunities to stay on the forefront of Microsoft SQL Server technology through education, networking and the sharing of information.

Join us for the first networking event to meet and greet other SFV SharePoint professionals.

San Diego SQL Business Intelligence Group (SDSQLBIG) is non-profit, all volunteer run organization dedicated to learning and sharing information about delivering business intelligence solutions using Microsoft SQL Server and related technologies. Meetings are scheduled the first Thursday of each month. Join us beginning at 6:00PM for light refreshments and networking with SQL Server professionals followed by a technical presentation on a current SQL Server topic. Our technical presentation is …

Downtown LA Startups is a group dedicated to bringing downtown Los Angeles entrepreneurs, start-ups, and existing small business owners together to network and to support one another.  Having been someone who started my own business in an apartment in downtown, there is difficulty in finding support and networking opportunities for downtown LAers as we're usually transplanted here from elsewhere with the hopes and dreams of making it big in the big city. We aim to host events that benefit start- …

STEP 1: Register at www.OCHackerz.com STEP 2: Introduce yourself to the group STEP 3: Check our discussion forum STEP 4: Sign up for the next event. Mission Statement:- OCHackerz is a human institution designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The vision for this group is to meet, network, learn and share ideas to build a community of people from all backgrounds, entrepreneurs, business strategists, accountants, legal attorneys, contractors, marketer …

This is the Southern California Oracle Big Data Analytics Meetup Group. Our focus is to network with Oracle technology professionals and evangelists to share user experiences, conduct training sessions, as well as hear from industry experts on the latest developments around Oracle Big Data, NoSQL, Hadoop, R, Oracle Big Data Connectors, ODI,  Endeca Information Discovery, Oracle Business Intelligence Analytics, Exalytics, etc.

A home for Riak Users and database enthusiasts in and around Los Angeles.  We'll be bringing in speakers from startups and others who are using Riak, learning from practical experience.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on once per month and enjoy a presentation on MongoDB.

Semantic Web in San Diego Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The existence of a semantic web meetup group in San Diego will hopefully stimulate information exchange, and the growth of this …

Meet other local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL, and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.

ABOUT THE GROUP: We started as a group studying physicist Tom Campbell's TOE (physics term for Theory of Everything.) Tom is a leader in explaining how Newtonian and quantum physics can be considered a special case subset of the new digital VR physics. Since the 1920's, all the great physicists of the last century realized that consciousness was an important aspect of a new understanding of physics. As the great Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene P. Wigner said, "It will remain remarkable, in …

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know!