# State Access Latency

> The degree of added latency incurred when state is fetched from an external store rather than held locally.

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

## category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## referenced-by

- [Statelessness](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/statelessness.md)