Mahout actually support Hadoop clusters, so potentially the Recommender API can use Hadoop too for really large computational tasks. However, I'm not sure if Hadoop is really needed because the current implementation is already quite fast.

Mark the status as "postponed".

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WoozyDuck’s picture

WoozyDuck commented
Status: Postponed » Active

Do we actually need Hadoop to use Recommender API?
This is a beginner question since I know Apache Mahout uses Hadoop I'd like to know if we "have to" install Hadoop in order to use module?

sheldonkreger’s picture

sheldonkreger commented

Hadoop supplements Mahout in cases where data sets are too large to process on one machine. Hadoop integration will be useful only for those who have very large data sets to work with.

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danithaca commented
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Migrated the issue to https://github.com/danithaca/drupal-recommender/issues/2.

sheldonkreger’s picture

sheldonkreger commented

@danithaca Are you porting all conversation to GitHub?