Extending technologies and data development culminated in the need for quicker and more reliable processing of massive data sets. Machine Learning techniques are used excessively. This paper, therefore, attempts to deal with data processing, using a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm in different fields since it is a reliable, efficient classification method in the area of machine learning. Accordingly, many works have been explored in this paper to cover the use of SVM classifier. Classification based on SVM has been used in many fields like face recognition, diseases diagnostics, text recognition, sentiment analysis, plant disease identification and intrusion detection system for network security application. Based on this study, it can be concluded that SVM classifier has obtained high accuracy results in most of the applications, specifically, for face recognition and diseases identification applications.