Evaluating the Scalability of Data Mining Provider Classifiers

Two classifiers implemented as Data Mining Providers are considered. These providers runs as a stand-alone servers or aggregated with Microsoft® SQL Server. One of these classifiers is the Microsoft® Decision Trees algorithm. The other is the Simple Naive Bayes incremental classifier, that supports continuous input attributes, multiple discrete predictable attributes and incremental updating of the training data set. The performance study carried out to verify the scalability of the classifiers includes factors of cardinality (number of training cases), number of input attributes, number of states of the input attributes and number of predictable attributes.