I believe because UUIDs in base-16 form are more canonical than in any other base (sure, except of 128-bit number). You may easily convert it into binary form or whatever with standard tools. Also, I wonder how you get 13 bytes from 32 byted string with base-36 since there should be 25 bytes after conversion. -- ,,,^..^,,,
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Arpit Malhotra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > I have a suggestion regarding couchdb id generation. Please correct me if I > am wrong - > since couchdb ids are treated as strings (not as 128 bit nums) so why don't > you convert the base-16 UUID to base-36 alphanumeric string to save some > characters and make IDs shorter. I converted UUID to base-36 in my API and > get 13 byte string instead of a 32byte UUID string > > Thanks, > Arpit
