BeeGFS includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility reasons. RADIUS had issues with reliability, scalability, security and flexibility. The choice impacts the cost, performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability of a web application. Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity. It increased the scalability and available bandwidth. MPI's goals are high performance, scalability, and portability. The spec includes improvements in flexibility, scalability, and lower-power. Lustre is characterized by its efficiency, scalability, and redundancy. The toolkit includes features for integration, management, scalability, security and accounting. It provides transactional semantics for data manipulation, horizontal scalability, and simple administration and monitoring. SQL Server includes better compression features, which also helps in improving scalability. Database services take care of scalability and high availability of the database. It is designed for scalability and automation. Replication is useful for read (but not write) scalability or data redundancy. Providing distributed search and index replication, Solr is designed for scalability and fault tolerance.