MLlib vs. NVIDIA Merlin

MLlib is Spark's machine learning (ML) library that make practical machine learning scalable and easy it provides ML Algorithms: common learning algorithms such as classification, regression, clustering, and collaborative filtering, feature extraction, transformation, dimensionality reduction, and selection, tools for constructing, evaluating, and tuning ML Pipelines, saving and load algorithms, models, and Pipelines and linear algebra, statistics, data handling, etc.

NVIDIA Merlin empowers data scientists, machine learning engineers, and researchers to build high-performing recommenders at scale. Merlin includes libraries, methods, and tools that streamline the building of recommenders by addressing common preprocessing, feature engineering, training, inference, and deploying to production challenges. Merlin components and capabilities are optimized to support the retrieval, filtering, scoring, and ordering of hundreds of terabytes of data, all accessible through easy-to-use APIs.