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three-tier model of client-server architecture comparison table

Subject	use	has definition	is a kind of
client-server architecture		An architectural pattern in which the system is divided into clients and servers	distributed architecture
three-tier model of client-server architecture	to design three-tier systems	A model in which a server communicates with both a client (usually through the Internet) and with a database (usually within an intranet, for security reasons)	client-server architecture

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