ulid VS dart-uuid

Compare ulid vs dart-uuid and see what are their differences.

ulid

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3 (by ahawker)

dart-uuid

Generate RFC4122(v1,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8) UUIDs (by daegalus)
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ulid dart-uuid
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0.0 7.5
about 1 year ago 19 days ago
Python Dart
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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ulid

Posts with mentions or reviews of ulid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-05.
  • Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
    I really like ULID for this problem (e.g: https://github.com/ahawker/ulid)

    - same number of bytes as UUID

    - start with a date, so has great locality. Plus you get extra information in the uid that you can extract.

    - can be created from an existing date or uuid, and exported to a uuid, so there is a migration path

  • New UUID Formats from IETF
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2022
    As the author of a popular ULID implementation in python[1], the spec has no stewardship anymore. The specification repo[2] has plenty of open issues and no real guidance or communication beyond language implementation authors discussing corner cases. The monotonic functionality is ambiguous (at best) and is implemented differently per-languages [3].

    Functionality, UUIDv7 might be the _same_ but the hope would be for a more rigid specification for interoperability.

    [1]: https://github.com/ahawker/ulid

    [2]: https://github.com/ulid/spec

    [3]: https://github.com/ulid/spec/issues/11

  • Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2021
    Looks similar to ULID[0] (I am the author of a popular python implementation[1]).

    It appears to have a similar constraint that two ID's generated within the same timestamp (ms, ns) have no strong guarantee of ordering. That might not be a deal breaker depending on your use case but something to consider.

    * https://github.com/ulid/spec

    * https://github.com/ahawker/ulid

  • Usando ULIDs para criar ordem em dados não ordenados
    3 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2021

dart-uuid

Posts with mentions or reviews of dart-uuid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-12.
  • New UUID Formats from IETF
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2022
    I maintain the Dart UUID library. For anyone using dart, or wants to see one of many implementations of v6,v7 and a custom v8 UUID, feel free to look at my in-progress branch linked below, I plan to merge it in once they add different string representations in a future draft (I've been involved in the conversations).

    https://github.com/Daegalus/dart-uuid/tree/uuidv6

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ulid and dart-uuid you can also consider the following projects:

ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

uuid7 - UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)

python-ulid - ULID implementation for Python

uuid - Generate and parse UUIDs.

uuid - Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript

uuid6-python - New time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key

UUID - :snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).

prototypes - Draft Prototypes and Tests for UUIDv6 and beyond

EXREX - Irregular methods on regular expressions

presents - Like hashids, but based on block ciphers

xeger - Library to generate random strings from regular expressions.

vanity-uuid - Create "readable" UUIDs such as "5eedbed5-f05e-b055-ada0-d15ab11171e5" for all your UUID needs!