On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 8:31 PM, 3316 Chirag Nagpal < chiragnagpal_12...@aitpune.edu.in> wrote:
> Since Density based clustering algorithms, are being utilised extensively, > especially by the GIS research groups, it is a bit sad that there isn't a > Map Reduce implementation available.. > > I think I will propose to write MapReduce code for DBSCAN and OPTICS for > GSoC '15. > > I would like to take your input as to how much of significance would this > be of to the community in general? > We have had proposals to add this to Mahout, but as far as I remember, no credible requests to use it. Also, there is the question of scalability of dbscan like algorithms.