What are the advantages and disadvantages of client server system?

Advantages

The advantages of client server databases are as follows:

Concurrent access

In client server database system several clients can access database simultaneously. It provides multi user environment to satisfy the request of many users at the same time.

Better Performance

In client server database system, several CPU’s process the database application simultaneously. It results in better performance and efficient processing.

Reduce Cost

In clients server database system, the communication costs are reduce .only the request for DBMS processing and their result are sent to communication network. It needs less communication traffic than file sharing system

Better user interface

The client computer is not used to process database. The processing power of this computer can be used for better graphical user interfaces. We can use more sophisticated menus and forms with colors and graphics

Disadvantages

In client server database system, there is possibility of less control. In many users are accessing the server simultaneously, it can result in wrong data in the database. For example if two users are trying the update database, the final change may be inconsistent. This is known as concurrency problem