Vector Clocks / Metadata Size
Kind: tension
Record: tension:metadata-size-vector-clocks
Canonical: Schema
"vector-clocks" (causality-core layer) is traded against "Metadata Size" (causality-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Metadata Size" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) / Bidirectional Collaboration and before Lamport Clocks / No Concurrent Causality Distinction.