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The "UUID" page has been changed by JamesBathgate.
The comment on this change is: Added basic Cassandra information for UUIDs, any 
base information on UUIDs can be found easily on wikipedia. Should that info be 
moved here as well?.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/UUID

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New page:
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier|Universally Unique 
Identifers]] (UUID) are a  standardized unique indentifier in the form of a 128 
bit number. In it's canonical form UUIDs are represented by a 32 digit 
hexadecimal number in the form of xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.

UUIDs are used in column comparison in Cassandra.

== LexicalUUIDType ==
The LexicalUUIDType is used for a non-time based comparison. It is compared 
lexically, by byte value.

== TimeUUIDType ==
The TimeUUIDType is used for a time based comparison. It uses a 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier#Version_1_.28MAC_address.29|version
 1 UUID]].

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