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by cube2222 539 days ago
UUID v7 is what you numbered #2.

For the others, it’s best to read up on Wikipedia[0]. I believe they all have their unique use-cases and tradeoffs.

E.g. including information about which node of the system generated an ID.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifie...