# Stateful Business Rules

> The degree to which rules that inherently depend on accumulated state resist a purely stateless design.

Record: `lexicon:stateful-business-rules`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-stateful-business-rules

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Parallel Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/parallel-processing.md) and before [Stateful Hidden Accumulation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/stateful-hidden-accumulation.md).

## Category

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)

## In tension with

- [Stateless Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/stateless-processing.md)
- [Stateless Processing / Stateful Business Rules](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/stateful-business-rules-stateless-processing.md)

## Linked from

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)