Scalability
All SWE patterns tagged with Primary Impact: Scalability
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SWE Patterns
Primary Impact
SWE-3001
2^ℵ₀
Unbounded Social Graph Queries
Implementing social relationships using pure relational joins without considering the exponential growth of multi-hop queries. Simple adjacency list t...
SWE-4001
ℵ₁
Poor Data Partitioning and Hotspot Keys
Designing schemas without considering data distribution, either keeping everything monolithic or choosing partition keys that create severe hotspots. ...
SWE-6004
ℵ₁
Monolithic Database Architecture
Architectural pattern where diverse functionalities share a single database cluster, creating resource contention, scaling limitations, and blast radi...