Choices in database workstation-server architecture

The workstation-server model is emerging as the standard computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Most object-oriented database systems choose either the object-server architecture, in which individual objects are passed between the server and the workstation, or the page-server architecture, in which a disk page is the unit of transport between the server and the workstation. In this paper we extend the work of DeWitt et al. (1990) to consider the advantages and disadvantages of an implementation in which the application has direct access to pages, rather than to objects