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 ...

In this architecture, there is an application running in the client machine which interacts with the server—most commonly, a database management system (see Figure 2). Typically, the client ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software.

Client-server networking refers to a computer networking model that uses both client hardware devices and servers, each with ...

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.

Client-serverless has roots in the old-guard, three-tier application architectures that sprung up around PCs and local area networks that connected a client-side GUI to a back-end SQL database.