DFW BigData

Come join us for discussions, presentations, and networking for use-cases, design, technologies, etc centered around all things NoSQL and BigData! It also services as a HUG (Hadoop Users Group) for DFW.

BigData? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
NoSQL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosql

Example types of things we like to talk about:

hadoop stack: HBase, HDFS, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Zookeeper, Mahout, etc
Cassandra
Amazon's AWS offerings: SimpleDB, S3, EC2, MapReduce, etc
Large scale analytics
Other DB's found on http://nosql-database.org/

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May 10 at 6:30 PM, 22 Members attended
Cassandra Internals, Introducing Acunu Castle
They rated it 4.006 (6 ratings)

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Left knowing more than when I came in. Interesting insights into the nature of the participants.

—Walter Johnston

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I enjoyed the new perspective on using distributed system.

—James Hilving
April 5 at 7:00 PM, 18 Members attended
What's New with Riak?
They rated it 4.002 (2 ratings)

Speaker: Tyrn Mirell, Developer Advocate - Basho Technologies. Long-time Linux hacker, reverse engineer of network protocols, Ruby enthusiast, and cat lover. I've... Learn more
February 9 at 6:30 PM, 38 Members attended
Flirting with Neo4j: An Introduction
They rated it 5.007 (7 ratings)

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Very nice intro to graph db. I enjoyed it. The speaker was also very knowledgeable about DB technologies in addition to their own products.

—raygao

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I enjoyed the presenter and his knowledge o fthe product. The equipment snafu was an avoidable distraction.

—Dan
January 5 at 6:30 PM, 41 Members attended
Big Data in DFW! Introduction to Columnar Databases and InfiniDB
They rated it 4.506 (6 ratings)

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I really liked the technical nature of the presentations. Great job done by the presenters.

—Dan

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Great questions and lots of tremendous dialogue.

—Jim Tommaney
November 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, 24 Members attended
Introduction to Couchbase and Membase Servers
They rated it 4.502 (2 ratings)

Couchbase is the leading provider of NoSQL database technology, powering some of the world’s largest web applications, and thousands of others. Whether a corporate... Learn more

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May 11 at 11:02 AM

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James Hilving attended Cassandra Internals, Introducing Acunu Castle
May 11 at 10:40 AM

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Walter Johnston attended Cassandra Internals, Introducing Acunu Castle
May 11 at 10:37 AM

"Left knowing more than when I came in. Interesting insights into the nature of the participants."

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