Clients

Clients may be diskless machines or PCs

or Workstations with disks with only the
client software installed.
Connected to the servers via some form of
a network.
(LAN: local area network, wireless network,
etc.)
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DBMS Server
Provides database query and transaction services
to the clients
Relational DBMS servers are often called SQL
servers, query servers, or transaction servers
Applications running on access server databases
via standard interface such as:
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity standard
JDBC: for Java programming access
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ODBC

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Two-tier Client-Server Architecture

The server holds both the application and
the data.

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Three Tier Client-Server Architecture

Presentation tier
A web browser
HTML, CSS, JavaScript (client site scripting).
Application tier (logic tier)
performs processing
An engine using some dynamic Web content technology
(such as ASP, ColdFusion,Java, PHP, Perl, Python.
Data tier
database servers.
MySQL
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Three-tier client server

architecture
Presentation, Application program, and
Database are logically separated.
Can easily modify any layer
independently.

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Classification of DBMS data

model
Traditional: Relational, Network, Hierarchical.
Emerging: Object-oriented, Object-relational.

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Classification of DBMS- single

user or multi-user
Single-user:
MS Access is single-user DBMS used to create small
desktop databases.
Multi-user :
MySQL is a multi-user DBMS to handle databases
with billions of records.
SQL Server is a multi-user DBMS to handle databases
with billions of records.
Oracle is a multi-user DBMS that supports distributed
corporate databases, enabling the user to access data
locally or from remote databases in a transparent
transaction. The maximum database size for an Oracle
database is 8 million terabytes.
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Classification of DBMS
centralized or distributed
Centralized database
uses a single computer with one database

Distributed database
databases are stored in multiple computers
located in the same physical location, or may
be dispersed over a network of interconnected
computers.
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Distributed Database

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Cost Considerations for DBMSs

Cost Range: from free open-source systems to
configurations costing millions of dollars
Examples of free relational DBMSs: MySQL,
PostgreSQL, others.

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