This is a User Group 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. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

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

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!

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 …

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.

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      

Silicon Valley PostgreSQL Users Group

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

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 …

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.

Monthly hack sessions at Citizen Space.

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 …

  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 – Introd …

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/)

We are a Bay Area user group focused on helping Datameer users share experiences, tech tips, solve big data analytic problems and solutions.  This group is for those who want to learn and advance their knowledge and use of Datameer.  Intended to be casual, this Meetup will encourage knowledge sharing and discussions set 'unconference' style.  At the beginning of the meetup, we will showcase a best practice then break out into discussion groups.  All Datameer related topics will be welcome.