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Client-Server Architecture

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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. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Informatique et Communications, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Anastasia Ailamaki

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Özsu, M.T. (2018). Client-Server Architecture. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_664

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