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# Best Practices for Optimum Performance and Scalability of Decision Tables

When you use decision tables for your decision-making process, it's important that you optimize them for scalability and performance. Scalability refers to the ability of decision tables to handle large datasets without compromising performance. Performance makes sure that decision tables operate at their highest efficiency with minimal latency and reduced processing time.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions for clouds that have Business Rules Engine enabled</td></tr></tbody></table>

Optimize your decision tables for scalability to accommodate larger datasets such as large volumes of rows or columns while maintaining stability. For quicker and efficient querying and evaluation of your decision tables, optimize them for performance.

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Important Before you follow the best practices for decision tables, review the default limits for Business Rules Engine components and their usage in [Business Rules Engine Default Limits](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.business_rules_engine_default_limits.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Review the default limits for Business Rules Engine components and their usage. To raise any default limits, contact Salesforce Customer Support."). To raise any default limits, contact Salesforce Customer Support.

Before you create decision tables, understand these best practices for the different types of decision tables.

- **[Best Practices for Standard Decision Tables](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.bre_best_practises_lowvolume_dt.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Follow the best practices for optimizing your standard decision tables for performance and scalability.
- **[Best Practices for Advanced Decision Tables](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.bre_best_practises_mediumvolume.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Follow the best practices for optimizing your advanced decision tables for performance and scalability.