“…Vertical data is more efficient than horizontal data in the process of obtaining the support of items because an algorithm only needs to read the columns related to a query, but does not need to read other unnecessary columns. For instance, if the support of itemset {I 1 I 2 } is needed in Table 1, an algorithm just needs to read and intersect the TID_sets of I 1 and I 2 and find support (I 1 I 2 ) = Num[ (1,4,5,7,8,9)∩ (1,2,3,4,6,8,9)] = Num(1, 4, 8, 9) = 4, instead of scanning the entire database as using horizontal data. Table 1.…”