As with the advancement of multimedia technologies, users are not gratified with the conventional retrieval system techniques. So a application “Content Based Image Retrieval System” is introduced. CBIR is the application to retrieve the images or to search the digital images from the large database .The term “content” deals with the colour, shape, texture and all the information which is extracted from the image itself. This paper reviews the CBIR system which uses SVM classifier based algorithms for feature extraction phase.