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ULID Generator

Generate Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers with high performance

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ULIDs Generated
1,500
ULIDs/Second
150
Active Users

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Fast, efficient, and sortable identifiers for modern applications

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ULID vs UUID

Why ULID is better than UUID in many situations?

ULID

Recommended

Time Sortable

First 10 bytes are Unix time that sorts naturally

Crockford's Base32

More efficient encoding, case insensitive, no special characters

Monotonicity Option

Can generate monotonically increasing values for the same timestamp

Human Readable

Easier to debug and read in logs and databases

ULID Example:

01ARZ3NDEKTSV4RRFFQ69G5FAV

UUID

Not Time Sortable

Random bytes don't provide any ordering guarantees

Hex Encoding

Less efficient, requires more characters for same information

No Monotonicity

No built-in mechanism for monotonically increasing values

Less Readable

Harder to distinguish and identify in logs and databases

UUID Example:

123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000

Performance Comparison

Generation Speed (Higher is better) ULID is the fastest
ULID
~2.5M/sec
UUIDv4
~1.7M/sec
UUIDv7
~1.4M/sec
String Length (Fewer characters is cleaner) ULID is 27% more compact
ULID
26 chars
UUIDv4
36 chars
UUIDv7
36 chars
Database Write Performance (Time-ordered index efficiency) ULID & UUIDv7 prevent page splits
ULID
0% Frag
UUIDv7
0% Frag
UUIDv4
98% Frag

Code Examples

Here are some code examples to help you get started

ulid_examples.sh
JavaScript
// Node.js / Browser
// Installation: npm install @ulid/javascript

import { ulid } from '@ulid/javascript';

// Generate a new ULID
const myUlid = ulid(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R4"

// Create ULID with custom timestamp (milliseconds)
const customTimestamp = 1616239022000;
const ulidWithCustomTime = ulid(customTimestamp);

// Create monotonically increasing ULIDs (for multiple IDs in the same ms)
import { monotonicFactory } from '@ulid/javascript';
const monotonic = monotonicFactory();
const ulid1 = monotonic(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R4"
const ulid2 = monotonic(); // "01F8MECHZX3TBDSZ7XR8H8J1R5" (incremented)

// Extract timestamp from ULID
const timestamp = ulid.decode(myUlid).time;
console.log(new Date(timestamp).toISOString());

JavaScript: npm install @ulid/javascript

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