# Storage Growth

> The degree to which an append-only log's storage footprint grows unbounded over time.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [State Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/state-overhead.md) and before [Storage Volume](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/storage-volume.md).

## Category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## In tension with

- [Append-Only Log](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/append-only-log.md)
- [Append-Only Log / Storage Growth](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/append-only-log-storage-growth.md)

## Linked from

- [Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-event-messaging-asynchronous-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)