> On Jan 26, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Hristo Asenov <hristo.s.ase...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Mark and Chris, I see now that I need to use a strongly consistent > framework of some kind for this operation.
Hi Hristo, Depending on your application, there are alternative ways of generating unique identifiers based on machine name and time — see the following: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake <https://github.com/twitter/snowflake> http://www.boundary.com/blog/2012/01/flake-a-decentralized-k-ordered-unique-id-generator-in-erlang/ <http://www.boundary.com/blog/2012/01/flake-a-decentralized-k-ordered-unique-id-generator-in-erlang/> However, these mechanisms while unique, are not comparable, so you’ll need an arbitration mechanism if you wish to generate a total order over these identifiers. - Chris Christopher Meiklejohn Senior Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. cmeiklej...@basho.com
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