Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

alizain/ulid port to Golang (binary format implemented).

Why ULID?

Check out ULID's README.

Go

I just ported it to see how fast would be the same algorithm in Go. Also, it is cryptographically secure using crypto/rand.

Installation

go get github.com/imdario/go-ulid

Usage

import (
    "github.com/imdario/go-ulid"
)

// ...

u := ulid.New()

Performance

On a Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 @ 2.40 GHz, Windows 10 and Go 1.6.3:

BenchmarkULID-2                  1000000              1029 ns/op              16 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodedULID-2           1000000              1249 ns/op              48 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkSingleEncodedULID-2    10000000               206 ns/op              32 B/op          1 allocs/op

Approx. 800.640 op/s, 46 times faster than Javascript original implementation.

How does it compare to UUID?

Using google/uuid:

BenchmarkUUID-2                  1000000              1041 ns/op              16 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEncodedUUID-2           1000000              1407 ns/op              64 B/op          2 allocs/op
BenchmarkSingleEncodedUUID-2     5000000               302 ns/op              48 B/op          1 allocs/op

go-ulid is about 12% faster than Google's UUID!