← Back to context Comment by sam_lowry_ 7 months ago or ULIDs or any other partially sortable ids. 3 comments sam_lowry_ Reply sebazzz 7 months ago ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F sam_lowry_ 7 months ago ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-) jszymborski 7 months ago ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
sebazzz 7 months ago ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F sam_lowry_ 7 months ago ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
jszymborski 7 months ago ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.
ULID are not necessarily sortable, just UUIDs consensed in a shorter string by using more characters than 0-9A-F
ULID = Unique Lexicographically sortable IDentifier ;-)
ULIDs are sorta the opposite of the HMAC method, where you can't query for the nth ID, but you can sort the IDs.