Data mining: a database perspective.

Data mining on large databases has been a major concern in research community, due to the difficulty of analyzing huge volumes of data using only traditional OLAP tools. This sort of process implies a lot of computational power, memory and disk I/O, which can only be provided by parallel computers. We present a discussion of how database technology can be integrated to data mining techniques. Finally, we also point out several advantages of addressing data consuming activities through a tight integration of a parallel database server and data mining techniques.