ulid VS xid

Compare ulid vs xid and see what are their differences.

ulid

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

xid

xid is a globally unique id generator thought for the web (by rs)
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ulid xid
11 6
4,061 3,702
1.8% -
4.3 3.7
15 days ago 8 months ago
Go Go
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 2023-06-28.

xid

Posts with mentions or reviews of xid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ulid and xid you can also consider the following projects:

nanoid - A tiny and fast Go unique string generator

uuid - Go package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services.

gouid - Fast, dependable universally unique ids

sno - Compact, sortable and fast unique IDs with embedded metadata.

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

Monoton - Highly scalable, single/multi node, sortable, predictable and incremental unique id generator with zero allocation magic on the sequential generation

pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

go.uuid - UUID package for Go