OC Big Data Monthly Meetup #3

5:45 - 6:45
Socialize over food and adult beverages

6:45 - 7:30
Solr + Hadoop: Interactive Search for Hadoop
Gregory Chanan - Software Enigneer @ Cloudera
----Gregory Chanan is a Software Engineer at Cloudera working on Search, where he leads the security integration efforts around Apache Solr. He is a committer on the Apache HBase and Apache Sentry (incubating) projects and a contributor to various other Apache projects. Prior to Cloudera, he worked as a Software Engineer for distributed computing software startup Optumsoft.

7:30 - 8:15
Overview of Cassandra and the Doradus Project
Randy Guck - Lead of the Doradus Project
----Randy Guck is a Principal Engineer at Dell Software, working in their Aliso Viejo, California office. He has been developing software for over 30 years, filling various technical and leadership roles at companies including Dell, Quest Software, Borland Software, and Unisys. Randy’s experience spans enterprise application domains such as client/server and peer-to-peer architectures, B2B eCommerce, transaction processing, and database technologies. Most recently, Randy lead a team that developed the Doradus database service, which extends the Cassandra NoSQL database with a REST API, graph database features, and high-performance OLAP queries. Randy holds six patents in the fields of eCommerce, multimedia management, and object databases.

Cloudera (http://www.cloudera.com/) will be sponsoring the food for this event.