Engineering Blog

• Prefixes as the solution to human readable UUIDs
• Why use UUIDs vs large integers: when 64 bits isn’t random enough
• guid birthday paradox problem collision 122 bits
• UUIDs vs composited keys in large enterprise data models
• UUIDs: consistent binary format in Distributed Cloud architectures
• rowversion keys: UUIDs vs timestamps
• formatting UUIDs into strings: not quite what you think
• Using Nanoids for Cloud Scale Database
• the-problem-with-using-uuid-as a primary-key-in-mysql
• The Problem With UUIDs And How To Solve It
• The Lesson About UUIDs Learned the Hard Way
• Use this instead of UUIDs/GUIDs in Databases
• Advantages and disadvantages of GUID / UUID database keys
• UUIDs have performane issues, but CUID2 isn't great either
• Working with SqlGuid Values
• ULID: the sortable version of UUID
• How are GUIDs sorted by SQL Server sort GUIDs?
• Using NewID to Generate sortable Guids
• Where to generate UUIDs: database, server, or client?
• Where to Generate IDs: database or client-side?
• Correctly Generating sortable sequential GUIDs SQL Server with .net
• non-sequential UUIDs in clustered or non clustered indexes
• Sqlite performance using: composite key, integer, UUID v4, UUID v7
• SqlServer performance using: composite key, integer, UUID v4, UUID v7
• PostGresql performance using: composite key, integer, UUID v4, UUID v7
• MySql performance using: composite key, integer, UUID v4, UUID v7