Re: GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib

From: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, viod <viod(dot)len(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib
Date: 2013-03-27 06:51:00
Message-ID: CAOeZVickf1SJ7oFqWTr8zCvTPQHdxE4eQNKK7uzaiyt06UZ9XA@mail.gmail.com
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>> I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a
>> Postgres-related project. I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm
>> pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it. KNNGist certainly
>> doesn't.
>
> It's a reasonably well established extension for Postgres for
> statistical and machine learning methods. Rather neat, but as you
> indicate, it's not part of Postgres proper.
>
> http://madlib.net/
>
> https://github.com/madlib/madlib/
>

It is the extension that is normally referred to when we talk about
data analytics in Postgres. As you said, it is not part of postgres
proper,but IMO, if we want to extend the data analytics
functionalities of postgres, we need to work on MADlib.

Regards,

Atri

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Regards,

Atri
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