Another possibility you haven&#39;t looked at is having a table of UUIDs with a BIGINT auto_increment PK and using that as keys in other takes with a foreign key relationship (whether defined or implied). That would give you a smaller integer (hence faster select/insert/join/etc) that&#39;s still guaranteed to be unique. Though the auto_increment INSERT could then become a bottleneck (hint run a recent 5.5/5.6 MySQL version at the very least since that bottleneck while still present was very much reduced).<div>


<br><div>-Steve<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 February 2013 20:55, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk" target="_blank">cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<div><div><br></div><div>Just spent a little while comparing the performance of heavy INSERT/SELECT performance against UUID fields in a MySQL database.</div>


</div><div><br></div><div>Full performance breakdown and write up can be found here;</div>
<div><a href="http://blog.simplicitymedialtd.co.uk/?p=437" target="_blank">http://blog.simplicitymedialtd.co.uk/?p=437</a></div><div><br></div><div>So far, the best option seems to be storing the UUID as a BINARY(16) - anyone have any thoughts on this?</div>



<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br>Cal</div>
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