Machine learning suites comparison (SAS, R, Pentaho, Mahout, Hadoop and others)

If you have wondered about comparing different machine learning suites available, you have come to the right place. Some of the suites covered are - R, SAS, Mahout, Hadoop, Spark, Pentaho and others. Table below shows the tradeoffs of the suites in an easy to read fashion.

Comparison of Machine Learning Suites
Comparison of machine learning suites
Hint- Its not hard to see that Hadoop is an good choice. Click here for more details.

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