Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
by jandrewrogers on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:46PM
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The sole constraint on a primary key is that it is unique. Even in distributed systems, deterministically unique keys are almost always much more compressible than probabilistically unique keys, which is a double win.
Should you desire a high-entropy key, e.g. for hash tables or security, this can be trivially derived from the low-entropy key while still guaranteeing deterministic uniqueness.
Compressible primary keys are superior in every way.
These should be high-entropy items.