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2-tier and 3-tier architecture

2-tier architecture

A C program accessing a database is a 2-tier application.

• Tier 1: The database.
• Tier 2: The C program.

Communication between the tiers is the database protocol, implemented by the driver, (e.g. libpq, JDBC, ...).

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