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Comment by inkyoto

7 hours ago

If you are looking for a monotonously increasing, sortable ID, you might then want to consider ULID[0] which predates UUID v7/v8.

It is probably not the right choice if you require a cryptographically strong and unique ID.

[0] https://github.com/ulid/spec

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