ShiroFlake is a distributed unique ID generator inspired by on Twitter's Snowflake
ShiroFlake by default using same parameter that used in Twitter's Snowflake.
A ShiroFlake ID is composed of
41 bits for time in units
12 bits for a machine id
10 bits for a sequence number
But you can set the unsigned parameter to true at initialization the generator to use full 64 bit.
var generator = new ShiroFlakeGenerator(
1, // machine id
unsigned: true);As a result, ShiroFlake has the following advantages:
- The lifetime (~139 years if unsigned is true) is longer than that of Snowflake (69 years)
- It can work in more distributed machines (2^12) than Snowflake (2^10)