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Filtering vs Middleware - What's the difference?

filtering | middleware |

As nouns the difference between filtering and middleware

is that filtering is something that passes through a filter while middleware is (computing) software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.

As a verb filtering

is .

filtering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that passes through a filter.
  • * 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    • the filterings from the subsoils
  • * 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
    • Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight

    Synonyms

    * filtrate

    middleware

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia middleware) (en-noun)
  • (computing) software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server
  • Networking software/hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.