# State Access Latency

> The degree of added latency incurred when state is fetched from an external store rather than held locally.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Session Affinity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/session-affinity.md) and before [Throughput/Batching](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/throughput-batching.md).

## Category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## In tension with

- [Statelessness](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/statelessness.md)
- [Statelessness / State Access Latency](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/state-access-latency-statelessness.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)