PDXPUG: August meeting

When: 7-9pm Thu Aug 21, 2014
Where: Iovation
Who: Jim Newman, iovation
What: Elasticsearch & Postgres, a working relationship

Topics to be covered:
- A brief intro to Elasticsearch
- Indexing Postgres with Elasticsearch using the JDBC river plugin
- SQL versus the Elasticsearch Query DSL, similarities (there are some) and
differences
- Using Postgres Perl functions for some SQLish access to Elasticsearch
- Feasibility of a foreign data wrapper for Elasticsearch?,
pg2elasticsearch is still just a GitHub readme

Jim Newman has 30 years of assorted database-related activity and shooting
pool. He's currently employed as Principal Data Architect at iovation.

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We have a new meeting location while the iovation offices are being
renovated. We're still in the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak),
but on the ground floor in the Training Room. As you face the bank of
elevators from the main lobby, take a good deep breath of drywall dust and
head to your right to a hallway. Follow the hallway as it turns to the
left. The Training Room is the 2nd door on your right and is labeled
"Training Room". There is no room number.

The building is on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking
is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the
usual spots.

See you there!