Research on the Design and Application of Sports Competition Ticketing Platform Based on Edge Computing

Table 2

Update methods for smart client applications.

	Contactless deployment update	Automatic update with application update stub	Getting updates from a file share	Xcopy update	Windows setup update
Non-superuser updates	Yes	Depending on the requirements of the application	Yes	No	Depending on the requirements of the application and the application distribution mechanism
Centralized update management	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Depending on the application distribution mechanism
Downloading updates when running the application	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Federated update infrastructure	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Update on a user/group-by-user basis	Yes	Yes	No	No	Depending on the application distribution mechanism
Transactional update	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Built-in version control support	No	No	No	No	Yes

Note. “Automatic update with application update stub” is the most efficient and best way to deploy platform updates in modern client application update technologies.