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Why not just use sequence ID? I'm confused about why a timestamp is important. The sequence ID gives us ordering, is always guaranteed to be increasing.
by vikiomega9 9y ago
Why not just use sequence ID? I'm confused about why a timestamp is important. The sequence ID gives us ordering, is always guaranteed to be increasing.
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- antirez 9y agoBecause with the way stream IDs are conceived you also get time-based range queries for free. With time series this is very important in many use cases.
- vikiomega9 9y agoI see, so this composite structure is in lieu of having two distinct fields exposed in the API?