# Distributed Availability

> The degree to which insisting on strong transactional consistency reduces availability across a distributed system.

Record: `lex:distributed-availability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-distributed-availability

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [ACID](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/acid.md)