SMRTR ProgrammingApr 5, 2025HackerNoon

UUID Makes Everything Better… Doesn’t It?

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UUIDs can hinder performance and inflate databases when overused as primary keys, but they excel in distributed systems, ID pre-generation, and when unpredictability is required, while auto-increment keys are typically more efficient for single-database configurations.

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