SCALABLE SET ORIENTED CLASSIFIER

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented scaleable set-oriented classifier. The scalable set-oriented classifier stores set-oriented data as a table in a relational database. The table is comprised of rows having attributes. The scalable set-oriented classifier classifies the rows by building a classification tree. The scalable set-oriented classifier determines a gini index value for each split value of each attribute for each node that can be partitioned in the classification tree. The scalable set-oriented classifier selects an attribute and a split value for each node that can be partitioned based on the determined gini index value corresponding to the split value. Then, the scalable set-oriented classifier grows the classification tree by another level based on the selected attribute and split value for each node. The scalable set-oriented classifier repeats this process until each row of the table has been classified in the classification tree.