All of Mahout is generally Hadoop/HDFS based. Taste is a bit of exception since it has a core that is independent of Hadoop and can use data from files, databases, etc. It also happens to have some clustering logic. So you can use, say, TreeClusteringRecommender to generate user clusters, based on data in a database. This isn't Mahout's primary clustering support, but, if it fits what you need, at least it is there.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM, nfantone<[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the fast response, Grant. > > I am aware of what you pointed out about Taste. I just mentioned it to > make a reference to something similar to what I needed to > implement/use, namely the "DataModel" interface. > > I'm going to try the solution you suggested and write an > implementation of VectorIterable. Expect me to come back here for > feedback.
