You actually should in the backend, at least when using clustered indices... See also https://vladmihalcea.com/clustered-index/ https://vladmihalcea.com/cluster

You actually should in the backend, at least when using clustered indices... See also https://vladmihalcea.com/clustered-index/ https://vladmihalcea.com/clustered-index/ Last section about "Clustered Index column monotonicity". Of course a public facing uuid or so is possible, but you want to index this too...