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

Meet nearby MySQL Users for conversation and fun! Discuss anything related to the world's most popular open source database! Network with MySQL experts and fellow opensource enthusiasts. Learn, share, develop and contribute!

I am planning to form this group to have hands on all Distributed Databases technologies and build our own hadoop cluster and use various hadoop flavors including Hadoop,HDFS,Hive,Pig,HQL. Also have hands on all Nosql Technologies like Cassandra,MongoDB etc. We would also like to go over R programming tool as part of Haddop Analysis. We would like to compare Hadoop vs any Relational DB and MPP Dbs to find some of the use cases where it could really helpful . Also we would like to solve some Indu …

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

  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      

Monthly hack sessions at Citizen Space.

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

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

Silicon Valley PostgreSQL Users Group

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

Meet other local users of one of the world's leading open source database products. Learn about MySQL and share your experience. Everyone, of all knowledge levels is welcome!

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.  

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 …

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the SF Bay Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics.

… He is well versed in many of the latest back-end, front-end, and database technologies. He has a BSCS from UT Dallas and a AAS in Electronic Technology from Austin Community College.