Mahout will work fine for smaller data sizes. Collaborative filtering can be difficult in general with small data, however.
How many users and how many items? How many actions? On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jayesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am exploring the collaborative filtering algorithms in Mahout to build a > recommendation engine. > > I had recently gone for a Big Data conference where the speakers suggested > that using Mahout is overkill for anything that doesn't have some terabytes > of training data. > > I tried to google some cases on that, but no help, so turned to this > thread. > > Would you suggest me using Mahout in my case when the training data might > not be in terabytes, but some gigabytes, perhaps few 100s of megabytes? > If not, do you suggest any other approach? > > Thank you. > > -- > Best Regards, > > Jayesh >
