Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

External DBMS schema layer. Client applications don't need to see every table in an enterprise database. Instead, to simplify client access and enhance security of the backend system, client ...

Yugabyte, the company behind the leading distributed SQL database, today announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.9. This latest release del ...

Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side.