HBase developers meet to tackle big development issues with whiteboarding and hacking. Also check out the SF HBase User Group (http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/) and LA Hadoop Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/hadoopla/)

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 …

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 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 …

Redis is a powerful and fast key-value store and server. We think it's awesome. There's a growing number of Redis aficionados in the Bay Area. Let's meet up, talk about Redis (and maybe a bit about database stuff in general), have fun, and help grow the Redis community!

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.

A monthly meetup for those in the Bay Area to talk Riak, distributed systems, and app. development.

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 …

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

Open to Bay Area folks interested in Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, EAI, ETL, dataflow architecture, and related topics

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a user group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouses. This group is open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architects, developers, modelers, analysts, data scientists, PMs, directors, recruiters, etc), learning the latest technologies and trends, and sharing best practices and experiences. For those interested in: Data Wareho …

For engineers, scientists and anyone else who wants to embark on a journey of learning Data Science

The San Francisco Bay Area Tableau Community with John Abdo as the lead organizer is dedicated to serving the needs of Tableau Users in the San Francisco Bay Area.

BashoChats is a monthly, intimate gathering at BashoWest to discuss issues, trends, and ideas in and around the areas of distributed systems and large-scale computing. The goal is to meet once a month at 929 Market St in SOMA. Basho will provide the pizza, beer, and projector. You bring the hard questions.

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

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.

This group is for people of ALL skill levels and users of ALL versions of Microsoft Access. We also include SQL server topics in our discussions. This group typically meets monthly at various locations in the San Francisco East Bay. We were previously named the Berkeley Access Database Users Group but have expanded our area of geographical coverage and our area of technical coverage.

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

Where the elite Essbase geeks meet to eat whilst at Oracle Open World. Food? Maybe. Drinks. Maybe that, too. Great conversation with fellow EPM practitioners? Absolutely.

Interested in Graph Databases, Graph Theory, Graph Algorithms, Graph mining? 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.

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

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