tsid-creator vs simpleflake

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tsid-creator		simpleflake
	Project
3	Mentions	1
409	Stars	178
6.8%	Growth	0.0%
6.9	Activity	0.0
29 days ago	Latest Commit	over 4 years ago
Java	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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tsid-creator

Posts with mentions or reviews of tsid-creator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-03.

TSID Creator: A Java Library for Generating Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
TSID Creator: A Java library for generating Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers (TSID).
1 project | /r/java_projects | 6 Jan 2023
Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2021

I started looking into TSID/KSUID/ULID in order to support cursor based pagination schemes in GraphQL against non-integer based unique id fields (such as uuids or unique string ids).
A couple of notable Java libs:
https://github.com/f4b6a3/ulid-creator
https://github.com/f4b6a3/tsid-creator
https://github.com/akhawaja/ksuid

simpleflake

Posts with mentions or reviews of simpleflake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-03.

Sortable Collision-Free UUIDs
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2021

I've used something very similar in the past, called SimpleFlake[0], which is essentially a 64 bit version with the same principles. I've used it in Lisp, C, C++, Clojure, Python, and Rust. It's conceptually simple, and fits in a 64bit int, which is natively available in a lot of databases.
[0] SimpleFlake - https://github.com/SawdustSoftware/simpleflake/blob/f2b51f76...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tsid-creator and simpleflake you can also consider the following projects:

ulid-creator - A Java library for generating Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers (ULID)

uuid - Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript

uuid-creator - A UUID library for Java.

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

ksuid - Java implementation of K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs

jnanoid - A unique string ID generator for Java.

spec - The canonical spec for ulid

spec - The Score Specification provides a developer-centric and platform-agnostic Workload specification to improve developer productivity and experience. It eliminates configuration inconsistencies between environments.

uuid-list - list of unique id implementations, design considerations, and resources.

ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3