Parallel implementation of classification algorithms based on mapreduce

Data mining has attracted extensive research for several decades. As an important task of data mining, classification plays an important role in information retrieval, web searching, CRM, etc. Most of the present classification techniques are serial, which become impractical for large dataset. The computing resource is under-utilized and the executing time is not waitable. Provided the program mode of MapReduce, we propose the parallel implementation methods of several classification algorithms, such as k-nearest neighbors, naive bayesian model and decision tree, etc. Preparatory experiments show that the proposed parallel methods can not only process large dataset, but also can be extended to execute on a cluster, which can significantly improve the efficiency.