rk done).</p>
        <p>Almost all commercial database products are implemented as servers, and
applications connect to them as clients. Servers have several features
that make them attractive.</p>
        <p>First, because all of the data is managed by a separate process, and
possibly on a separate machine, it's easy to isolate the database server
from bugs and crashes in the application.</p>
        <p>Second, because some database products (particularly relational engines)
are quite large, splitting the