# Lock-Free Throughput

> The degree to which a design sustains high throughput by coordinating concurrent access without holding locks.

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

## category

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

## referenced-by

- [Pessimistic Locking](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/pessimistic-locking.md)