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At a Glance
MLlib
MLlib
Star Rating
(14)4.1 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (50.0% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about MLlib
Mahout
Mahout
Star Rating
(13)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Mid-Market (38.5% of reviews)
Information
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Mahout
AI Generated Summary
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  • Users report that Mahout excels in its "Quality of Support," with a score of 8.8, indicating that users find the support team responsive and helpful, while MLlib's support quality is rated lower at 7.3, suggesting potential delays or less effective assistance.
  • Reviewers mention that MLlib offers a superior "Ease of Use" experience, scoring 8.8 compared to Mahout's 7.1, which indicates that users find MLlib more intuitive and user-friendly for machine learning tasks.
  • G2 users highlight Mahout's strong "Product Direction" with a positive rating of 8.9, suggesting that users feel confident in the product's future development, whereas MLlib's score of 7.5 indicates some uncertainty among its users regarding ongoing improvements.
  • Users on G2 report that Mahout has a more challenging "Ease of Setup" with a score of 7.6, while MLlib shines in this area with a score of 8.7, making it easier for users to get started with their machine learning projects.
  • Reviewers say that both products have similar "Meets Requirements" ratings, with Mahout at 8.3 and MLlib at 8.5, indicating that both products generally fulfill user needs, but MLlib has a slight edge in this aspect.
  • Users report that Mahout's "Training Data" capabilities are robust, but MLlib's integration with Apache Spark enhances its performance in handling large datasets, making it a preferred choice for users needing scalability in their machine learning applications.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
MLlib
No pricing available
Mahout
No pricing available
Free Trial
MLlib
No trial information available
Mahout
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.5
14
8.3
11
Ease of Use
8.8
14
7.1
11
Ease of Setup
8.7
9
7.6
9
Ease of Admin
7.9
7
7.6
9
Quality of Support
7.3
10
8.8
8
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
7.6
7
8.6
6
Product Direction (% positive)
7.5
14
8.9
11
Features by Category
Not enough data
Not enough data
Integration - Machine Learning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Learning - Machine Learning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
MLlib
MLlib
Mahout
Mahout
MLlib and Mahout are categorized as Machine Learning
Unique Categories
MLlib
MLlib has no unique categories
Mahout
Mahout has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
MLlib
MLlib
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
21.4%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
50.0%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
28.6%
Mahout
Mahout
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
30.8%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
38.5%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
30.8%
Reviewers' Industry
MLlib
MLlib
Financial Services
21.4%
Computer Software
21.4%
Telecommunications
14.3%
Information Technology and Services
14.3%
Wireless
7.1%
Other
21.4%
Mahout
Mahout
Computer Software
23.1%
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
7.7%
Telecommunications
7.7%
Semiconductors
7.7%
Real Estate
7.7%
Other
46.2%
Most Helpful Reviews
MLlib
MLlib
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User in Financial Services
GF
Verified User in Financial Services

MLlib now works on the new DataFrame API and thus is very easy to use.

Most Helpful Critical Review
Saeid A.
SA
Saeid A.
Verified User in Telecommunications

It is rigid with some of the algorithms, specially with advanced one like neural network. For instance, you are unable to change activation functions of a neural network. You can either use Sigmoid for all the layers, or tanh which is not really making...

Mahout
Mahout
Most Helpful Favorable Review
Verified User
G
Verified User in Banking

Apache mahout is used for scalable machine learning project implementation and development

Most Helpful Critical Review
VS
varu s.
Verified User in Semiconductors

The compute time is relatively slow when compared to other similar frameworks like Mlib and tenserflow. Also, there's no enterprise support as such and it's purely an open source framework with limited online knowledge repository.

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Discussions
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