Your company's customer database has doubled in both transaction volume and stored data during the past year, and similar growth is expected to continue. Management asks you to be sure the database platform can accommodate this larger workload without slowing queries or causing downtime. Which database characteristic should you prioritize to meet this requirement?
Scalability is the capacity of a database to grow-by adding resources or distributing the workload-while still delivering acceptable performance. Focusing on scalability ensures the system can handle more users, data, and transactions as demand rises. Availability keeps the system online, concurrency control governs simultaneous access, and backup frequency protects data, but none of these directly guarantees that performance will remain stable as load increases.
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