alldata-keygen v0.1.1

alldata-keygen

Stability: 1 - Experimental

Key generation module for AllData, a distributed master-less write-once immutable event store database implementing "All Data" part of Lambda Architecture.

Usage

var AllDataKeygen = require('alldata-keygen');
var key = AllDataKeygen.createKey();
// 20130927T005240652508858176

Test

npm test

Overview

AllDataKeygen generates a unique key for every event to be stored in AllData.

Documentation

AllDataKeygen

Public API

• AllDataKeygen.createKey()

AllDataKeygen.createKey()

Creates a new key. Example: 20130927T005240652508858176.

Format is yyyymmddTHHMMsslllnnnnnnnnn

• yyyy current UTC year
• mm current UTC month
• dd current UTC day
• T time separator
• HH current UTC hours
• MM current UTC minutes
• ss current UTC seconds
• lll current UTC milliseconds
• nnnnnnnnn nanoseconds "unique" marker from process.hrtime()[1]; could be less than 9 digits