Lexicon

Single-Primary Read Contention

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:single-primary-read-contention

Canonical: Lexicon

Serving all reads from the single primary, so read load contends with writes and limits throughput.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Single Target Routing and before Unbounded Access.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Negated by

  • Read Replica

Violates

  • Read Replica

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization