meaning of scalability
1. scalability How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it might fail to meet response time requirements. In this case, the average response time probably scales linearly with the number of clients, we say it has a complexity of ON "order N" but there are problems with other complexities. E. g. if we want N nodes in a network to be able to communicate with each other, we could connect each one to a central exchange, requiring ON wires or we could provide a direct connection between each pair, requiring ON^2 wires the exact number or formula is not usually so important as the highest power of N involved.
2. the quality of being scalable
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