Learn, share, and investigate new breed data analytics Ask yourself ? - How big of data have I heard, seen, and worked with? - How does google, amazon, yahoo deal with data? - Do current commercial products work in large scale scenarios? - How can I stay ahead as enterprises use the new solutions? Who should be interested ? - Business Data Analysts - Data warehousing technologists - Passion to learn new technologies

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The NYC Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across NYC to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation Apache Cassandra.

Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.