Hello! Because we have just released
RapidMiner Studio 6 and there have been some quite significant changes, this topic here is intended to help making the transition as smooth as possible and answering any questions you might have! This thread will be updated on a regular basis with future questions/issues as they arise. Let's get started!
RapidMiner Studio 6Q: What's new?A: Many things have been improved both over and under the hood of RapidMiner!
- first batch of new Application Wizards which aim to solve common data mining problems without extensive computer science knowledge
- licensing framework allowing all editions of RapidMiner Studio to contain all features as opposed to different community and enterprise versions in the past
- major changes to the result perspective including the statistics and plotters which make exploring results much more intuitive
- improved usability for new and seasoned users of RapidMiner Studio including new tutorials
- Data Editor which allows editing and creation of example sets similar to a spreadsheet application
- improved export and print options
- greatly improved Mac user experience
- completely reworked 'Filter Examples' operator
- many, many performance improvements and bugfixes all around
Q: What does the future hold?A: Not everything made it into the initial release. Just as in the past, we will update RapidMiner Studio on a regular basis to add new features and fix problems and bugs. Furthermore, more free extensions adding more features to the RapidMiner Studio core will be released over the course of the next months.
Q: Updating from RapidMiner 5 to RapidMiner Studio 6A: It is not possible to update directly from RapidMiner 5 to RapidMiner Studio 6, so you need to download it from the website
here and install it separately.
IMPORTANT:
All your processes created with RapidMiner 5 can still be used in RapidMiner Studio 6. However, RapidMiner Studio 6 reads configuration settings from a different location than RapidMiner 5 does. Therefore, when starting RapidMiner Studio 6, you will not see your old repositories, preferences, and other configuration options. To restore your RapidMiner 5 repositories, follow these steps
1. Locate the folders .RapidMiner5 and .RapidMiner in your user folder. The first is used by RapidMiner 5 whereas RapidMiner Studio 6 uses the second.
2. Move or copy the repository folders in .RapidMiner5/repositories/ to a place where you want to store data, e.g. .RapidMiner/repositories/.
3. Start RapidMiner 6 Studio.
4. In the toolbar of the "Repositories" view, click "Add Repository" (first icon, showing a server with a "+").
5. In the dialog, select "New local repository" and press "Next".
6. Assign a name in the "Alias" text field.
7. Uncheck "Use standard location" (the standard location is inside the folder .RapidMiner6/repositories)
8. Select the location where you copied your repository.
9. Click Finish.
Repeat steps 4-9 for each repository you want to re-add.
(Note: It is safe to copy or rename the entire folder .RapidMiner5 to .RapidMiner to keep your old settings. Still, doing this you will not see your old repositories since their location has changed.)
Q: My repositories I used in RapidMiner 5 are gone in RapidMiner Studio 6!A: See above question. You need to follow the steps above.
Q: I cannot start RapidMiner Studio 6 on MacOS!A: For RapidMiner Studio 6 to run on Mac, you do need Mac OS 10.7.3 or newer AND you do need to run Java 7. If you have Java 6 and 7 installed in parallel, make sure you are using the correct one. To that end, open a terminal and type "java -version". Java 7 will report a version number of 1.7.0. You can then start RapidMiner Studio 6 by just double-clicking "RapidMiner Studio.app". If that fails, try running RapidMiner-Studio.sh. The error message "Unsupported major.minor version 51.0" means that you are still using Java 6.
LicensingQ: Why are you doing this?A: First things first: No existing user of RapidMiner is losing anything but rather is getting more options. Up until now we had a separate enterprise version which had additional features not included in the community edition. The reason is that at the end the enterprise customers are the ones who invest most into the future development of the RapidMiner platform, which is something we think you all understand.
However, that differentiation will no longer exist in the future, as all future RapidMiner Studio versions will contain every feature in every edition. The only restrictions are the ones you can see on the website
here.
Further clarification can be found
here.
Q: What Editions are available?A: Starter (free of charge), Personal, Professional, Enterprise. You can also aquire a 14-day trial license for the professional edition and there will be a special offer for academic users available in the near future.
Q: What does the free 'Starter Edition' contain?A: The RapidMiner Studio 6 'Starter Edition' includes every feature of RapidMiner Studio 6, but main memory usage and
import data sources are restricted:
- it can use up to 1GB of main memory
- it can read CSV and Excel files
Q: Where can I get a 14-day trial license of the 'Professional' edition?A: Go to
https://rapidminer.com/my-account/, click on 'Free Trial of Professional' and follow the steps. At the end, your license key is displayed in a textbox. Select it (Ctrl+A), copy it into your clipboard (Ctrl+C) and paste it (Ctrl+V) into RapidMiner Studio 6 'Manage Licenses...' dialog in the 'Help' menu.
Q: So RapidMiner Studio is closed source from now on?A: Yes and No. The latest major version (i.e. RapidMiner Studio 6 at the moment) will be closed source, while the previous version will be open source without any restrictions. This means that as soon as RM 7 is released, the 6 series will then be released as the new community edition and so on. See our new
community website for further information.
Q: Can I continue using RapidMiner 5?A: Absolutely. Nothing changes for RapidMiner 5, it is still open source and it will continue to be available in its current form.
Q: What does this mean for me?A: You can evaluate and use RapidMiner Studio 6 indefinetly with the free of charge 'Starter Edition'. If you need more data import sources or more available main memory, you can upgrade to one of the larger editions. If that is not an option, you can continue using RapidMiner 5 without any restrictions whatsoever just as before.
And finally, once RapidMiner Studio 7 has been released in the future, you will be able to use RapidMiner Studio 6 without any restrictions.
RapidMiner ServerQ: How do I configure the memory settings of RapidMiner Server?A: During installation of RapidMiner Server, you can define the main memory assigned to the Server. If this changes, e.g. once you purchase a new license, you need to change this configuration. To do so, please follow these steps:
1. Browse your RapidMiner Server installation folder. Change to the "bin" subfolder.
2. Edit the configuration file:
1. On Windows:
Edit the file "standalone.bat.conf". Locate the line starting with
set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms512M -Xmx%{MAX_MEMORY}m
2. On Linux/Unix/Mac OS:
Edit the file "standalone.conf". Locate the line starting with
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx%{MAX_MEMORY}m
Here, %{MAX_MEMORY} is a placeholder representing whatever you entered during the first installation.
3. Edit this line, replacing %{MAX_MEMORY} by the amount of memory, in megabytes, you want to assign to the server.
4. Save the file and restart the server.
Last Edit: fixed RM Server memory configuration file names
