Well
It’s not a big question, obviously.
But you see, an application that is using a database on the servers, and is installed on multiple clients. Is called Client/Server application.
And an application that is constituted by two parts: Host (or server) part, and the client part.
They are both called client/server apps
How can we distinguish them, and what’s the proper name of each type.
P.S. I’m talking about English, you know. I want to say that this application is Client/Server(only database on server) and not a Client/Server(as real client and server).
As others have said, they’re both client/server applications. If you want to be more explicit about what kind of client and what kind of server, you can use adjectives or nouns. Please don’t go inventing new terms when we’ve already got plenty of terms that can be combined – computer science & software engineering are already overloaded with unnecessary terms.
client/application server (the app server may include a db, or the appserver may be the db client)
database client/database server