Hallo Ted, hello Sean, I appreciate both of your work. I am not a contributor of code at all and I am just spreading the word around Mahout and creating some documentation and demo projects.
I can understand that it is difficult to integrate the interests of an employer and of an open source project. Nevertheless I believe in commercial offerings and in competition. So more competition will in the end create better products. Sometimes it makes sense to keep temporary secrets sometimes it doesn't as far as I know research did not found evidence yet. On 12.11.2013, at 09:13, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mahout has served well for a long time as measured in Hadoop-years -- >> like 4+ years. It's still in usable life. I don't think the current >> state of the code means it's feasible to truly evolve it towards >> things like Hadoop 2, Spark, real-time. > > It would be nice if Cloudera could publish some benchmarks. Cloudera vs. Mahout vs. SAP HANA PAL vs. SPSS to give somebody the chances to enhance Mahout in a way that it can catch up. It would be great if the current discussion can lead to some benefitting competition like the NetFlix prize. Thanks a lot Manuel -- Manuel Blechschmidt M.Sc. IT Systems Engineering Dortustr. 57 14467 Potsdam Mobil: 0173/6322621 Twitter: http://twitter.com/Manuel_B
