An advantage of the naive Bayes classifier is that it only requires a small amount of training data to estimate the parameters

(means and variances of the variables) necessary for classification.

The Naive Bayes algorithm affords fast, highly scalable model building and scoring. It scales linearly with the number of predictors and rows. The build process for Naive Bayes is parallelized. (Scoring can be parallelized irrespective of the algorithm.) Naive Bayes can be used for both binary and multiclass classification problems.
Knowledge Discovery is NEEDED to make sense and use of data.