In data mining, Apriori technique is generally used for frequent itemsets mining and association rule learning over transactional databases. The frequent itemsets generated by the Apriori technique provides association rules which are used for finding trends in the database. As the
size of the database increases, sequential implementation of Apriori technique will take a lot of time and at one point of time the system may crash. To overcome this problem, several algorithms for parallel implementation of Apriori technique have been proposed. This paper gives a comparative
study on various parallel implementation of Apriori technique .It also focuses on the advantages of using the Map Reduce technology, the latest technology used in parallelization of large dataset mining.