edit: this was a bit harsh of a reply in retrospect, apologies. the question is answered below, but i’ll repeat: a “monotonic UUID” is one that numerically increases as new UUIDs are generated. this has the advantage of writing new UUID to indexed database columns quite a bit faster, since most database index structures are more efficient when inserting at the end than at a random point (non-monotonic UUID’s).
you might know what “monotonic” means if you had googled it, which would also give you the answer to your questionedit: this was a bit harsh of a reply in retrospect, apologies. the question is answered below, but i’ll repeat: a “monotonic UUID” is one that numerically increases as new UUIDs are generated. this has the advantage of writing new UUID to indexed database columns quite a bit faster, since most database index structures are more efficient when inserting at the end than at a random point (non-monotonic UUID’s).