Abstract: Sectuential pattern mining (SPM) is an important research subject of data mining, and used widely in many application fields. hhis paper firstly discussed background of sequential pattern minging, then classified it, and introduced as well as compared the features of sequential pattern minging algorithms based on the classification. Finally, discussed the future research on this field so that researchers can do further study.

Key words: Data mining, Sequential pattern mining (SPM)，Closed pattern, Incremental pattern, Multi-dimentional pattern