Schema Contract / Schema Flexibility

Kind: tension

Record: tension:schema-contract-schema-flexibility

Canonical: Schema

"schema-contract" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Schema Flexibility" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Schema Flexibility" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Data Contract / Flexible Ingestion and before Semantic Contracts / Cross-Domain Translation.

In tension with

• Schema Contract
• Schema Flexibility

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Resolution mechanisms