It doesn't matter, in the sense that it is never going to be fast enough for real-time at any reasonable scale if actually run off a database directly. One operation results in thousands of queries. It's going to read data into memory anyway and cache it there. So, whatever is easiest for you. The simplest solution is a file.
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ahmet Ylmaz <ahmetyilmazefe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to use Mahout to make recommendations on my web site. Since the > data is going to be big, hopefully, I plan to use hadoop implementations of > the recommender algorithms. > > I'm currently storing the data in mysql. Should I continue with it or should > I switch to a nosql database such as mongodb or something else? > > Thanks > Ahmet
