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 ...

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 ...

McObject®, provider of database management system software for trading and other capital markets applications, announced it has released version 7.0 of its eXtremeDB® Financial Edition DBMS.

Instead, to simplify client access and enhance security of the backend system, client applications receive an external view of the logical layer that shows only the subset of data the apps require.