I would say that Mahout is about scalable machine learning solutions. Those may use Hadoop. Or not. The emphasis is on scaling.
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hear some consensus that Mahout is about distributed, Hadoop-based > solutions for developers. So let's make sure we present a clean, > coherent API to developers wanting to run the project's Hadoop jobs. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve