Application Architecture: 2Tier or 3Tier? What is DBMS's Role?

Summary: Panel discussion contrasting 2-tier vs 3-tier architectures and clarifying the DBMS's evolving role. Explores required technologies and mechanisms for modern web apps and where they should reside in the stack, with implications for data-management design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3287
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,079 | 3.41%
DOI: 10.1145/342009.335474

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Authors

1. Anil K. Nori (Asera Inc.)

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@inproceedings{nori_sigmod00,
        title = {{Application Architecture: 2Tier or 3Tier? What is DBMS's Role?}},
        author = {Nori, Anil K.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '00},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/342009.335474},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/342009.335474},
        year = {2000}
}

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