Sequential Access / Random Access Requirement
Kind: tension
Record: tension:random-access-requirement-sequential-access
Canonical: Schema
"sequential-access" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Random Access Requirement" (execution-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Random Access Requirement" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Sequential Access / Lookup Performance and before Forward-Only Processing / Complex Grammar/Global State.