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Client-Server DBMS

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Client-server DBMS (database management system) refers to an architectural paradigm that separates database functionality between client machines and servers.

Historical Background

The original idea, which is to offload the database management functions to a special server, dates back to the early 1970s [1]. At the time, the computer on which the database system was run was called the database machine, database computer, or backend computer, while the computer that ran the applications was called the host computer. More recent terms for these are the database server and application server, respectively.

The client-server architecture, as it appears today, has become a popular architecture around the beginning of 1990s [2]. Prior to that, the distribution of database functionality assumed that there was no functional difference between the client machines and servers (i.e., an earlier form of today’s peer-to-peer architecture). Client-server architectures are believed to be...

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  1. Canaday R.H., Harrisson R.D., Ivie E.L., Rydery J.L., and Wehr L.A. A back-end computer for data base management. Commun. ACM, 17(10):575–582, 1974.

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  2. Orfali R., Harkey D., and Edwards J. Essential Client/Server Survival Guide, Wiley, New York, 1994.

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  3. Özsu M.T. and Valduriez P. Principles of Distributed Database Systems, 2nd edn., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1999.

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  1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Özsu, M.T. (2009). Client-Server DBMS. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_664

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