One area that would be good research for you would be operating system concepts. Many degrees in computer science offer a course in this.
It looks like you have a hypothetical application on your computer that is querying the database, and you are wondering if streaming this hypothetical application will increase performance.
Having worked as a performance tester, I can say that system performance is a compromise and a priority. that is, do you want the user interface to be very responsive, or do you want to use absolute minimum system resources?
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