# Lock-Free Throughput

> The degree to which a design sustains high throughput by coordinating concurrent access without holding locks.

Record: `lexicon:lock-free-throughput`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-lock-free-throughput

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Lock Ownership](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/lock-ownership.md) and before [Strong Conflict Prevention](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/strong-conflict-prevention.md).

## Category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## In tension with

- [Pessimistic Locking](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/pessimistic-locking.md)
- [Pessimistic Locking / Lock-Free Throughput](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/lock-free-throughput-pessimistic-locking.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)