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peer-to-peer

type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
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Summary

peer-to-peer is a network architecture[1]. peer-to-peer draws 7,346 Wikipedia views per month (network architecture category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: software architecture[3]
  • Subclass of: computer network[4], service on Internet[5]
  • Commons category: Peer-to-peer[6]
  • Opposite of: client-server model[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Peer-to-peer[8]
  • Manifestation of: decentralization[9]
  • Different from: point-to-point[10], primary/replica architecture[11]
  • Derivative work: cryptocurrency[12]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/peer-to-peer[13]

Why It Matters

peer-to-peer has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] peer-to-peer is known by 154 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

client-server model Coral Content Distribution Network Florian Tschorsch GNUnet iMesh JMule Kazaa Lite P2P@i serverless computing software architecture

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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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