But not for integration as a recommendation system which is what the OP was asking about.
R is excellent for data-mining, but sucks for deployment and integration. Mahout is a bit cumbersome getting started with, but is awesome for integration of recommendations and classification. For the recommendation side, it isn't even all that bad for the getting started part. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > R is probably a better choice for speed, management, output options > and platform footprint reasons. > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> This would be used in non-distributed contexts, yes. >> On Jun 12, 2011 8:59 AM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There are definitely drupal sites that can use recommendations. >>> Whether they need map-reduce to scale this is a separate question. >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> What are the uses for Mahout combined with Drupal? Are there Drupal >>>> sites big enough to warrant Mahout's map-reduce scaling? >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Sean Owen (JIRA) <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-731?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13047916#comment-13047916] >>>>> >>>>> Sean Owen commented on MAHOUT-731: >>>>> ---------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Seems fine to me. Just follow the pattern of the other implementations. >>>>> >>>>>> Add SQL92JDBCDataModel >>>>>> ---------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> Key: MAHOUT-731 >>>>>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-731 >>>>>> Project: Mahout >>>>>> Issue Type: New Feature >>>>>> Components: Collaborative Filtering >>>>>> Affects Versions: 0.6 >>>>>> Reporter: Daniel Xiaodan Zhou >>>>>> Assignee: Sean Owen >>>>>> Labels: drupal_integration >>>>>> Fix For: 0.6 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm thinking to work on a patch that adds SQL92JDBCDataModel based on >> the sample code of PostgreSQLJDBCDataModel. This class will only use >> standard SQL92. It won't be high performance, but would have maximum >> compatibility to other popular DBMS, such as Oracle, SQLlite, etc. This is >> quite important to Drupal/Mahout integration. >>>>>> Before I actually write the code, is there any suggestions or concerns? >> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >>>>> For more information on JIRA, see: >> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Lance Norskog >>>> [email protected] >>>> >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > [email protected] >
