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To be fair, he seemed to be referring to non-sequential GUIDs. And I can understand his point. If the only thing a GUID provides is a unique ID, it's not doing much with all that room it takes up.


I didn't even know there were actual sequential GUIDs until I just googled for them. Thanks!

Seems they are mostly just like autoincrement integers with the random GUID data following. I guess you still have the storage constraints, but now you at least can order them easily.


Just in the interest of sharing more on IDs, I found this an interesting read:

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha...




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