Apache Mahout vs. Apache PredictionIO vs. Java vs. PySpark Comparison Chart

Apache PredictionIO® is an open-source machine learning server built on top of a state-of-the-art open-source stack for developers and data scientists to create predictive engines for any machine learning task. It lets you quickly build and deploy an engine as a web service on production with customizable templates. Respond to dynamic queries in real-time once deployed as a web service, evaluate and tune multiple engine variants systematically, and unify data from multiple platforms in batch or in real-time for comprehensive predictive analytics. Speed up machine learning modeling with systematic processes and pre-built evaluation measures, support machine learning and data processing libraries such as Spark MLLib and OpenNLP. Implement your own machine learning models and seamlessly incorporate them into your engine. Simplify data infrastructure management. Apache PredictionIO® can be installed as a full machine learning stack, bundled with Apache Spark, MLlib, HBase, Akka HTTP, etc.

PySpark is an interface for Apache Spark in Python. It not only allows you to write Spark applications using Python APIs, but also provides the PySpark shell for interactively analyzing your data in a distributed environment. PySpark supports most of Spark’s features such as Spark SQL, DataFrame, Streaming, MLlib (Machine Learning) and Spark Core. Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing. It provides a programming abstraction called DataFrame and can also act as distributed SQL query engine. Running on top of Spark, the streaming feature in Apache Spark enables powerful interactive and analytical applications across both streaming and historical data, while inheriting Spark’s ease of use and fault tolerance characteristics.