Juanjo, Using the Taste components, it will be almost impossible to get really high performance. For that, using the itemsimilarity program to feed a search index is the best alternative.
The scala version of the itemsimilarity program is available in Scala and could be called fairly easily as a library. The older map-reduce version is not easily used as a library. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Juanjo Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Manuel, > Thanks for the update. > > I'm using Mahout in a simple Java application myself. Following Ted's > comment a few posts back, I was just concerned about the performance. > > Is performance the only concern when using Taste or the algorithm's > implementation has also been improved in the current implementations > accessible via CLI. > > Thanks. > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Manuel Blechschmidt < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Juan, > > > > > On 21.01.2015, at 11:05, Juanjo Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Pat for the resources. > > > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong but all Mahout's latest tools are > command > > > line tools only, is that correct? > > > > Yes, this is kind of correct. All tools are command line based. There was > > some development for an interactive console similar to R > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1489 < > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1489> > > > I was wondering if there is a library > > > with the latest implementation that can be used in a Java or Scala > > project? > > > > The following project uses Mahout in a full blown simple Java EE > > application: > > > > https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo < > > https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo> > > > > > > Best. > > > > /Manuel > > > > -- > > Manuel Blechschmidt > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Manuel_B > > > > >
