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 …

Get together with the Couchbase meetup group to learn more about this NoSQL document database for web and mobile applications. Couchbase is particularly well suited for interactive applications, providing easy scalability, consistent high performance, 24x365 availability, and a flexible data model for ease of development.

This is a group for anybody interested in building databases, node.js, streams, LevelDb, and building application servers in javascript. Everybody is welcome to attend, we have a great list of speakers for the event representing the who's who of the node/leveldb world.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Running a Hadoop cluster using Cloudera Manager? Using Cloudera Manager to monitor and operate your Hadoop infrastructure? Share your experiences and best practices with other users and learn more from Cloudera engineers who will be on hand.

What:  Monthly meetings with Hive contributors on relevant issues. Target Audience:  Active contributors to the Apache Hive project. Where: Rotating venues. When: Monthly, normal business hours.

HBase is a robust, scalable, distributed, column-oriented store capable of hosting billions of row of sparse, structured data. HBase is open source and part of the Hadoop project. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around the most recent release of HBase, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of HBase; or if your company has plans for a huge data store and you're evaluating solutions. Also check out …

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 the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

Salesforce Integration & Analytics is a San Francisco meetup for Salesforce.com users, administrators, Force.com developers, sales and marketing professionals, and others interested in extending the Salesforce platform. Topics will include: data integration dashboards analytics business intelligence (BI) This meetup is not an official Salesforce.com event, but we are all big fans. The meetup is free and open to anyone. We meet every other month, usually on Wednesday evening, and start with 1.5 …