I would say that abstracting away from hadoop is a huge issue that we definitely don't need to worry about right now.
Even the hadoop guys haven't figured out the right interface yet! On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vl...@gmail.com> wrote: > just a note: Wouldn't it be better to talk about MapReduce as opposed to > Hadoop? This means that for each algorithm implemented in Mahout it should > be clearly stated wheter it is MapReduce based implementation or not (or > using other ways to make it scalable). > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve