# Metadata Size

> The degree to which carrying a per-node counter for every node grows the ordering metadata with cluster size.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Concurrent Update Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/concurrent-update-detection.md) and before [Node Identity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/node-identity.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Vector Clocks](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/vector-clocks.md)
- [Vector Clocks / Metadata Size](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/metadata-size-vector-clocks.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)