On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Nick Pentreath <[email protected]>wrote:
> My (admittedly heavily biased) view is Spark is a superior platform overall > for ML. If the two communities can work together to leverage the strengths > of Spark, and the large amount of good stuff in Mahout (as well as the > fantastic depth of experience of Mahout devs) I think a lot can be > achieved! > It makes a lot of sense that Spark would be better than Hadoop for ML purposes given that Hadoop was intended to do web-crawl kinds of things and Spark was intentionally built to support machine learning. Given that Spark has been announced by a majority of the Hadoop-based distribution vendors, it makes sense that maybe Mahout should jump in. I really would prefer it if the two communities (MLib/MLI and Mahout) could work more closely together. There is a lot of good to be had on both sides.
