We had an application specific reason we needed to use them instead of numerics and used this method which helps somewhat: https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/

We had an application specific reason we needed to use them instead of numerics and used this method which helps somewhat: https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized-way/ https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized...