Latency/Availability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Causality Core

Record: lexicon:latency-availability

Canonical: Lexicon

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

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Eventual Consistency Safety and before User-Visible Ordering Guarantees.

Category

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

In tension with

• Causal Consistency
• Causal Consistency / Latency/Availability

Linked from

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• The resolutions