Hi Adam,

On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:21am, Adam Warski wrote:

> 
> On Oct 4, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Ken Krugler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Adam,
>> 
>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:38am, Adam Warski wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to run the hadoop-based recommender job 
>>> (org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.hadoop.item.RecommenderJob) from Mahout 0.8 on 
>>> EMR. I'm using the "Amazon Distribution" Hadoop, which is version 1.0.3. 
>>> Locally running the job with that version works just fine - I get the 
>>> expected output.
>>> 
>>> On EMR, however, the job fails with the given exception: 
>>> java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 
>>> org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue.<init>(I)V (full stack trace: 
>>> https://gist.github.com/adamw/6824585).
>>> 
>>> Looking at the EMR documentation 
>>> (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/DeveloperGuide/emr-plan-ami.html),
>>>  the AMI contains Lucene 2.9.4, while Mahout uses 4.3.0. And indeed, in 
>>> Lucene 2.x there's not PriorityQueue(int) constructor, while in Lucene 4.x 
>>> there is.
>>> 
>>> Is there some known way to solve this problem and run Mahout on EMR? I 
>>> though about using a bootstrap action, but then replacing lucene will 
>>> probably trigger a long chain of dependencies which would have to be 
>>> updated as well.
>> 
>> We wound up in the same situation, and went ahead with updating everything 
>> to Solr/Lucene 4.2.1, IIRC.
>> 
>> The one oddity we ran into was a Solr (not Lucene) dependency on a newer 
>> version of HttpClient (4.2.3) than what was installed on EMR's servers, so 
>> we also had to update that jar and about 4 other friends from the HttpCore 
>> family.
>> 
>> If you go this route, you'll want to hop onto a slave in your EMR cluster 
>> and take a look at all of the jars in the Hadoop /lib directory, as it's a 
>> long (and somewhat odd) list that should be reviewed against what your 
>> project depends on.
>> 
>> -- Ken
> 
> Thanks, did just that and described on my blog:
> http://www.warski.org/blog/2013/10/using-amazons-elastic-map-reduce-to-compute-recommendations-with-apache-mahout-0-8/

Excellent, glad it worked, and thanks for taking the time to write up the 
results.

-- Ken

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