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I'm curious, what systems were those that generate >10e9 UUIDs/s?
by axiosgunnar 5y ago
I'm curious, what systems were those that generate >10e9 UUIDs/s?
- chmod775 5y agoPOV: You're AWS and logging every API call. Just as an example where you could easily reach high ballparks, though I doubt it's that many. Maybe some some distributed computing applications on server farms otherwise? Certainly not anything that you'd store in a regular database.
- jandrewrogers 5y agoMany types of telemetry and sensor data models; vast networks of machines can generate a stupendous quantity of events. UUIDs are not good design choice in these cases but it is a hard requirement for some users for compatibility with legacy systems which require a 128-bit unique identifier for everything. Another issue with probabilistic UUIDs, possibly more important than collisions, is that they don’t compress very well when stored.