# Latency/Availability

> The degree to which enforcing causal ordering across replicas costs added latency and reduced availability.

Record: `lex:latency-availability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-latency-availability

## category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## referenced-by

- [Causal Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causal-consistency.md)