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Why the Apache Mahout is deprecated and what's the alternatives ?!

AcharkiMed — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:28:08 GMT

Hi all,

I have read in the Mahout Installation docs that it was deprecated since CDH 5.5 and it will be removed at CDH 6.0 as I see in the Deprecated items.
Any idea about the why? and the alternatives?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Why the Apache Mahout is deprecated and what's the alternatives ?!

Matt Brandwein — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:59:41 GMT

Briefly: Because Apache Spark is a capable - and far more powerful - replacement.

Re: Why the Apache Mahout is deprecated and what's the alternatives ?!

AcharkiMed — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:55:17 GMT

Thanks @Matt Brandwein.

From a computational force point of view, yes (knowing that Mahout also uses Spark),but what about the Mahout algorithms library? is Spark has some libriries too?

Re: Why the Apache Mahout is deprecated and what's the alternatives ?!

AcharkiMed — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:22:43 GMT

In fact, the answer is yes, I found that Spark has the MLlib Library for Machine Learning algorithms, and it seems great.

Re: Why the Apache Mahout is deprecated and what's the alternatives ?!

maziyar — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:55:23 GMT

As you mentioned correctly Apache Spark is offering MlLib (or ML) which it comes with a set of features for some basic NLP, most popular algorithms for clustering and classifications, etc.

But that is not all! You can use many libraries which are released to complete Spark in a domain of Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Basically, these libraries are using Spark APIs and Engine.

You can have a look here (or other lists): https://github.com/awesome-spark/awesome-spark#machine-learning-extension