Big Data Recommender System

Recommendation Systems provide the facility to understand a person’s taste and find new. As one of the most successful approaches to build recommender systems collaborative filtering (CF) uses the known preferences of a group of users to make recommendations or predictions of the unknown preferences for other users. In this research we first introduce recommendation systems and CF then we have proposed a system for generating recommendations on a Big amount of Data by memory based filtering techniques (User-based and Item-based). These techniques require no knowledge of properties of items and characteristics they only use the information in the rating matrix. We have implemented these recommendation algorithms on Hadoop platform using Apache Mahout a Machine Learning tool to provide a scalable system for processing huge data sets efficiently. Finally we compared and discussed the results of the both techniques to determine their quality of generating recommendations.