A server apparatus that communicates with a plurality of information processing apparatuses and transmits synchronization data based on a database to an information processing apparatus that has requested data acquisition includes a hard disk drive (HDD) that stores the database, and at least one controller that updates the database based on update data transmitted from one information processing apparatus from among the plurality of information apparatuses, and receives a request for data acquisition and does not access the database when a transmission source of the request is the one information processing apparatus.