# Event Sourcing / Query Complexity

> "event-sourcing" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Query Complexity" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Query Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:event-sourcing-query-complexity`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-event-sourcing-query-complexity

## tensions-with

- [Event Sourcing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/event-sourcing.md)
- [Query Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/query-complexity.md)