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Sep 12, 2022 · Databases

Why Auto‑Increment Fails in Distributed Databases and How to Design Scalable Indexes

This article explains why using auto‑increment primary keys in a distributed database leads to collisions and performance issues, and presents practical strategies such as ordered UUIDs, embedding shard keys, index tables, and global table replication to achieve efficient, scalable index design.