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Ulid
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How to use performant Guid as primary keys in databases. UUID Version 7 to the rescue!
Side note, an interesting thing to add to your benchmarks would be ULID https://github.com/Cysharp/Ulid
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New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
I’m using Postgres so I actually have it a little easier with its native sort order. I switched from NUlid that I was using from years back to this one [0], and the default .ToGuid() gets the desired sort order when used with Npgsql. Likewise though, no db-side generation of uuid - then again, isn’t that the benefit of using globally unique identifiers in the first place, to avoid needing to rely on the db to generate conflict-free identifiers, skipping HiLo or sequences, etc.
Anyway, nice to meet another .NET Ulid user in the wild!
0: https://github.com/Cysharp/Ulid
ksuid
- What happens after 100 years?
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Zero Downtime Postgres Upgrades
OP here - we avoid sequences in all but one part of our application due to a dependency. We use [KSUIDs][1] and UUID v4 in various places. This one "gotcha" applies to any sequence, so it's worth calling out as general advice when running a migration like this.
[1]: https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
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Bye Sequence, Hello UUIDv7
UUID v4 isn't large enough to prevent collisions, that is why segment.io created https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid which is 160bit vs the 128bit of a UUIDv4.
- You Don't Need UUID
- A Brief History of the UUID
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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
Assuming you don't need to use UUIDv7 (or any UUID's) then https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid provides a much bigger keyspace. You could just append a string prefix if you wanted to namespace, but the chance of collisions of a KSUID is many times smaller than a UUID of any version.
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Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
KSUID's are have temporal-lexicographical order plus 128 bits of entropy, which is more than UUIDv4.
https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
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UUIDs are so much better than autoincrementing ids and it's not even close
That's why you use ksuid (https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/) or, if you're willing to go with a draft spec you could go with the new UUID formats https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bi...
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What Happened to UUIDv2?
Interesting in more history of UUIDs? Twilio Segment's blog has an amazing history lesson about how they came to be.
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Which UUID package do you use? and why?
I use the ksuid from segment. https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
What are some alternatives?
uuid6-ietf-draft - Next Generation UUID Formats
ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3
ulid-mssql - Implementation of ULID generator For Microsoft SQL Server
pg-ulid - ULID Functions for PostgreSQL
uulid.go - ULID-UUID compatibility library for generating and parsing ULIDs.
nanoid - A tiny (124 bytes), secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator for JavaScript
Entity Framework - EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
shortuuid.rb - Convert UUIDs & numbers into space efficient and URL-safe Base62 strings, or any other alphabet.
python-ksuid - A pure-Python KSUID implementation
shortuuid.go - Encode large numbers and UUIDs into space efficient strings
uuid7 - UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)