Hi Roshan, You probably want to look at Twitter's Snowflake: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake
There's also another Java variant: https://github.com/earnstone/eid - Drew On Mar 30, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Roshan Dawrani wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way I can get multiple unique time UUIDs for the same timestamp > value - I mean, the UUIDs that are same in their time (most significant > bits), but differ in their least significant bits? > > The least significant bits added by > me.prettyprint.cassandra.utils.TimeUUIDUtils seem to be a fixed value based > on mac/ip address, which makes sure that I get the same UUID for a timestamp > value, everytime I ask. > > I need the "(timestamp): <some value>" kind of columns that need to be sorted > by time, and I wanted to use TimeUUID to use column sorting that comes > out-of-the-box, but the problem is that I can get multiple values for the > same timestamp. > > So, I am looking for some way where the time portion is same, but the other > UUID half is different so that I can safely store "1 time UUID: 1 value". > > Any help there is appreciated. > > -- > Roshan > Blog: http://roshandawrani.wordpress.com/ > Twitter: @roshandawrani > Skype: roshandawrani >
