-Over the past years, the internet has become faster, computer storage has become larger and the data from internet users and sensors is piling up to larger amount and is also spread around the globe. This requires more time and space for a single computer to cope with them. Ecosystems like Hadoop helps to store, process and retrieve back the data efficiently in a distributed fashion. Data mining finds substantial improvements over such distributed frameworks to process a large volume of data in a lesser time. Currently, there are many approaches to do data mining tasks such as classification and clustering in a distributed setup using Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, and other Cloud platforms. Actionable pattern mining is a rule based data mining approach for discovering knowledge from information systems in a form of Action Rules. An emphasis of traditional classification rules from a supervised Machine Learning is to predict class label of a data object. Whereas Action Rules produce actionable knowledge in the form of suggestions on how an object can change from one class value to another more desirable class value. This paper gives a brief survey of previous works on association and classification rule mining algorithms in a distributed environment, as well as action rule mining algorithms, and discusses Action Rule Mining in a distributed environment.