Billions of IDs per second, no coordinator needed
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Infino's blog post describes a 128-bit Snowflake-style row ID that needs no central coordinator. It packs a 64-bit millisecond timestamp, a random 40-bit writer ID drawn at startup, and a 24-bit sequence number.