Database Architecture

Two tier architecture

• Two level of arch
– Two tier
– Three tier
• Advantage
– Simple to implement
– Less number of customer
• Disadvantage
– Scalability (As client increase load will increase on server side)
• ODBS
• Database vendors gives ODBC connector
– Open database connectivity
– Using ODBC connect to server and with that client
can request server
 Three tier architecture
• Webapplication follow this standard
• GUI -> WebServer -> DBMS
Client will interact with the intermediate
server(Webserver) and that will interact with database
server.
• Advantage
– Performance increased
• Disadvantage
– complexity