goflake vs ulid

goflake

A highly scalable and serverless unique ID generator for use in distributed systems. Written in GoLang. Inspired by Twitters Snowflake. (by Hart87)

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Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Go (by oklog)

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goflake		ulid
	Project
-	Mentions	11
11	Stars	4,125
-	Growth	1.6%
0.3	Activity	4.5
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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goflake

Posts with mentions or reviews of goflake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 2023-06-28.

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023

Our Go ULID package has millisecond precision + monotonic random bytes for disambiguation while preserving ordering within the same millisecond. https://github.com/oklog/ulid
Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2023

There is no "tests".
There is just a single test. Which only tests the decoding of a single known value. No encoding test.
Go has infrastructure for benchmarking and fuzzing. Use it!
Also, you took code from https://github.com/oklog/ulid/blob/main/ulid.go which has "Copyright 2016 The Oklog Authors" but this is not mentionned in your base32.go.
cmackenzie1/go-uuid: library for generating version 4 (random) and version 7 (time-ordered) UUIDs
4 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2023

maybe because of dependencies: https://github.com/oklog/ulid/blob/main/go.mod ??
The most helpful Go Packages
7 projects | /r/golang | 27 Nov 2022
UUIDs Are Bad for Database Index Performance, enter UUID7!
3 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2022

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
Is it bad to use short (20 chars) random strings as primary keys?
3 projects | /r/golang | 27 Jun 2022

I'm not concerned too much about the performance or the storage size at this stage. I've checked ulids before posting (more specifically https://github.com/oklog/ulid) but the only difference than a random string (especially if you use them with math.rand) is the timestamp prefix which makes them sortable, but I don't need that (users could use the internal SQLite rowid if they needed to sort by a primary key).
UUIDs Are Popular, but Bad for Performance
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2022
Golang Base Project - A simple web app with user authentication
6 projects | /r/golang | 12 Dec 2021

why are you using https://github.com/oklog/ulid to generate a cookie secret?
What are your favorite packages to use?
55 projects | /r/golang | 15 Aug 2021

oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).
Keyset pagination using UUID v4 mongodb go
1 project | /r/golang | 15 Feb 2021

If you just want to roll with an off-the-shelf library, you can use ULID. There are tons of custom made *flake alternatives. If ULID doesn't fit your purposes, look for others.