# Denormalized Read Models

> A read-optimized model that deliberately duplicates data to serve queries fast, trading storage and write cost for read speed.

Record: `lexicon:denormalized-read-models`
Kind: pattern
Layer: [Contracts Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/contracts-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-denormalized-read-models

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Data Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/data-semantics.md) and before [Non-Redundant Storage](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/non-redundant-storage.md).

## Category

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)

## In tension with

- [Normalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/normalization.md)
- [Normalization / Denormalized Read Models](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/denormalized-read-models-normalization.md)

## Linked from

- [Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-schema-canonical-data-semantics.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)