# Metadata Overhead

> The degree to which the bookkeeping a conflict-free type carries per value adds storage and transmission cost.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Last-Write-Wins Overwrite](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/last-write-wins-overwrite.md) and before [Identical Delivery Order Across Nodes](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/identical-delivery-order-across-nodes.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [CRDTs](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/crdts.md)
- [CRDTs / Metadata Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/crdts-metadata-overhead.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)