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Miki Szeles
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Interesting insights Sagar. Thanks. I am not an expert on the topic, so my question might be stupid: Why do we need a sortable id? Why don't we simply sort based on the creation timestamp?
Sagar
Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of building, breaking and gliding in the tech world
Hello Miklós, Thank you for your kind words, means a lot to me.
Now to answer your question in short.
Sortable UID are far more more easier to sort and you can set your index based on the uid’s timestamp.
Though you’re correct that we can store the timestamp in a tuple and sort based on it, but running that query will be a costly operation.
Thanks for the answer Sagar Sengupta