# Latency/Availability

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

Record: `lexicon:latency-availability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-latency-availability

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Eventual Consistency Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/eventual-consistency-safety.md) and before [User-Visible Ordering Guarantees](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/user-visible-ordering-guarantees.md).

## Category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## In tension with

- [Causal Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/causal-consistency.md)
- [Causal Consistency / Latency/Availability](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/causal-consistency-latency-availability.md)

## Linked from

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)