Sequential Guid in Java

java guid sequential
massimogentilini picture massimogentilini · Feb 4, 2010 · Viewed 7k times · Source

Considering the post I've made about the sequential guid performance on Microsoft.NET framework (see What are the performance improvement of Sequential Guid over standard Guid?) does somebody have a proper, sure, fast and well working Java implementation of the same algorithm implemented in the Windows DLLs?

Regards Massimo

Answer

Noon Silk picture Noon Silk · Feb 8, 2010

See this article: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25862&seqNum=7 (linked to Page 7).

It contains an algorithm for what the author refers to as "COMB" Guids; I reproduce his code (SQL) below:

SET @aGuid = CAST(CAST(NEWID() AS BINARY(10)) 
+ CAST(GETDATE() AS BINARY(6)) AS UNIQUEIDENTIFIER)

Trivial to convert this to Java, or your desired language. The obvious underlying principle is to make the date a component of the Guid. The entire article is a good read, as he does a nice analysis of the performance of the various approaches.

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