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10 Difference Between Client-Server and Peer-To-Peer Network - Viva Differences

The document compares client-server networks and peer-to-peer networks. It notes that peer-to-peer networks focus on connectivity and decentralization, with each peer storing its own data. Peer-to-peer networks are less expensive to implement but also less stable and secure than client-server networks, which have a centralized server providing authentication. The document provides a table comparing the two network types on factors such as data storage, differentiation of clients and servers, performance, reliability, and access time for services.

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10 Difference Between Client-Server and Peer-To-Peer Network - Viva Differences

The document compares client-server networks and peer-to-peer networks. It notes that peer-to-peer networks focus on connectivity and decentralization, with each peer storing its own data. Peer-to-peer networks are less expensive to implement but also less stable and secure than client-server networks, which have a centralized server providing authentication. The document provides a table comparing the two network types on factors such as data storage, differentiation of clients and servers, performance, reliability, and access time for services.

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What You Need To Know About Peer-To-Peer Network


1. Peer-to-Peer Network focuses on connectivity. They are usually found in homes and small offices
that don’t require centralized access to files or services.
2. Peer-to-Peer Network, each peer has its own data. The server id decentralized.
3. Peer-to-peer Network is less expensive to implement. Connecting an Ethernet cable between
two laptops creates the most basic peer-to-peer network.
4. In Peer-to-Peer Network, clients and server are not differentiated.
5. Peer-to-Peer Network are less stable if number of peer is increased.
6. In Peer-to-Peer Network, each and every node can make both request and respond for the
services.
7. The Peer-to-Peer is less secure when compared to Client-server Network and in fact it becomes
more problematic as the number of clients increases.
8. In case of large number of clients in a Peer-to-Peer Network, performance problems are highly
likely to be experienced since all resources are shared.
9. There are multiple service providing nodes in a Peer-to-Peer Network and therefore it is more
reliable.
10. In Peer-to-Peer Network, the service providing nodes are distributed, the service requesting
node does need to wait long.

Difference Between Client-server And Peer-To-Peer


Network In Tabular Form
BASIS OF
CLIENT-SERVER NETWORK PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK
COMPARISON
Focus Focuses on information sharing. Focuses on connectivity.
Data Centralized server is used to store the data. Each peer has its own data.
It is less expensive to
Implementation Less expensive to implement.
implement.
Clients and server are differentiated, specific Clients and server are not
Differentiation
server and clients are present. differentiated.
Peer-to-Peer Network are
Client-Server Network is more stable and
Stability less stable if number of peer
scalable.
is increased.
Each and every node can
The client requests for service and server
Service make both request and
responds with a service
respond for the services.
Security It is very much secure when compared the It is less secure when
Peer-to-Peer Network. This is because the compared to Client-server
server can authenticate a client’s access to any Network and in fact it
part of the network. becomes more problematic

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as the number of clients


increases.
The Client-server arrangement does not In case of large number of
experience performance problems in case the clients in a Peer-to-Peer
number of client increases. This is because the Network, performance
Performance
server does a lot of the heavy lifting and that problems are highly likely to
the clients are not required to share their be experienced since all
computing power. resources are shared.
Reliability It is less reliable. It is more reliable.
The service providing nodes
Multiple clients request for services from a
Access Time For are distributed, the service
server and therefore, the access time for a
Service requesting node does need
service is higher.
to wait long.

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