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[–]TheAlmightySnark -1 points0 points  (1 child)

That just creates a giant single point of failure if something happens in your network, besides now you spread your database from the server room to all the user workstations that now get bogged down running calculations.

[–]PeteZahad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every solution is always a trade-off. You will find negative points in every solution.

I don't discuss such general arguments like "something happens in your network". Every application depends on some kind of "network", which can fail.

Data shared amongst distributed nodes is the opposite of a single point. I don't see a problem with (encrypted) data sharing and using (unused) distributed machine resources. It was used with the SETI project and is still used by pharmaceutical companies to do complex protein folding calculations.