snowfake
The premium Open Source alternative to Twitter Snowflake
🎯 Best for:Developers building distributed applications that require unique, time-sortable identifiers.
What is snowfake?
A high-performance utility designed to replace Twitter's Snowflake for generating unique, sortable short IDs in distributed environments. It ensures collision-free ID generation at high scale without centralized bottlenecks.
Tech Stack
GoDatabase & Storage
Why snowfake?
- • High-scale concurrency support
- • Generates sortable short IDs
- • No centralized coordination needed
Limitations
- • Specific niche use case
- • Requires careful node ID config
- • Implementation overhead
12/14/2024
Last Update
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Forks
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Issues
MIT
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Twitter Snowflake)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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