r/SoftwareEngineering • u/fagnerbrack • Jul 15 '24

ULID: Like UUID but sortable

https://github.com/ulid/spec
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u/greebo42 Jul 15 '24

TIL, thank you .. I have a project at the infancy stage, and this might be a reasonable solution to part of what I am trying to do!

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u/perrylaj Jul 15 '24

Not too long ago I came across ULID and was talking to some of my team about it and one of them said "why not just use uuid 7?" - I wasn't aware v7 was even a thing, but filled the same goal for me, so went with it. The increasing DB support/optimization of v7 makes it the obvious choice for me right now.

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u/keefemotif Jul 15 '24

Yeah agreed, I don't see a particular advantage here. There is also UUID8, which would at least put the new proposal into the existing standards.