There are a couple of key advantages to the client-server architecture DBMS. Firstly, there is no need for the client to be running on the same computer system as the server. Firstly, requests can be sent by the client over a network or internet connections to the server on a remote host. The fact that the server resides on a remote computer is invisible to the client user. This makes the database available to greater numbers of users than a shared-file DBMS offers. In large scale enterprise environments this also allows high levels of fault tolerance and load balancing to be implemented.

There are a couple of key advantages to the client-server architecture DBMS. Firstly, there is no need for the client to be running on the same computer system as the server. Firstly, requests can be sent by the client over a network or internet connections to the server on a remote host. The fact that the server resides on a remote computer is invisible to the client user. This makes the database available to greater numbers of users than a shared-file DBMS offers. In large scale enterprise environments this also allows high levels of fault tolerance and load balancing to be implemented.