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Comment by baq

17 hours ago

It’s much easier if you can simply not coordinate. Bonus points if that doesn’t mean you need an atomic clock in your rack

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mahboi  17 hours ago

If you're designing a distributed DB, sure. If you're using something, you do whatever it wants. Spanner recommends random keys. Citus uses serial.

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