He's talking about simple kmeans which is a mapper only job. Sean's already addressed his question
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2014, at 5:49 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have several implementations of k-Means, which one do you refer to? > > --sebastian > >> On 03/04/2014 11:43 AM, Gmail wrote: >> Hello, >> I was studying Mahout libraries and I found something of strange in your >> kMeans implementation. >> >> I was looking inside it and I have noticed that kMeans only uses map >> functions, omitting the reducers. Why have you done this choice? >> It is not using MapReduce programming model even if it is declared that >> the Mahout's core is Hadoop. >> Is this choice driven by performance issue? >> >> Best regards >> Manuel Sequino >
