Nano ID [1] is a library for generating random IDs. Likewise UUID, there is a probability of duplicate IDs. However, this probability is extremely small.

NanoID Collision Calculator [2] is a web app that calculates the possibility of a nano id collision based on the ids’ length.

[1] https://github.com/ai/nanoid

[2] https://zelark.github.io/nano-id-cc/

#NanoID #tools #statistics #hashing #collision #PrimaryKey #guid #uuid

Souhaitant utiliser des ids random plus courts que des #UUID dans les urls d'une application web, j'ai testé dans le repository suivant une implémentation de #NanoID 100% basé sur #PostgreSQL.

https://github.com/stephane-klein/nanoid-postgres-poc

#ProofOfConcept