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Is Hadoop installation mandatory when using Apache Mahout

Does Apache mahout work without Hadoop , If not so which parts specifically of mahout are dependent on Hadoop . I am trying Mahout clustering implementations .

Thanks . Shahid.

Solution

  • From the Mahout FAQ, Hadoop is not required for all of the algorithms implemented in Mahout, including:

    • User-based collaborative filtering
    • Item-based collaborative filtering
    • Matrix factorization with alternating least squares
    • Matrix factorization with alternating least squares on implicit feedback
    • Weighted matrix factorization
    • Logistic regression
    • Hidden Markov models
    • Canopy clustering
    • k-means clustering
    • Fuzzy k-means
    • Streaming k-means
    • Singular value decomposition
    • Lanczos algo