# Data Migration Compatibility

> The degree to which reverting code is constrained by forward data migrations that cannot easily be undone.

Record: `lexicon:data-migration-compatibility`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-data-migration-compatibility

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Unsafe Automation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/unsafe-automation.md) and before [Fast Failure Recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/fast-failure-recovery.md).

## Category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## In tension with

- [Rollback](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/rollback.md)
- [Rollback / Data Migration Compatibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/data-migration-compatibility-rollback.md)

## Linked from

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)