分布式系统中,有一些需要使用全局唯一ID的场景,这种时候为了防止ID冲突可以使用36位的UUID,但是UUID有一些缺点,首先他相对比较长,另外UUID一般是无序的。

有些时候我们希望能使用一种简单一些的ID,并且希望ID能够按照时间有序生成。

而twitter的snowflake解决了这种需求,最初Twitter把存储系统从MySQL迁移到Cassandra,因为Cassandra没有顺序ID生成机制,所以开发了这样一套全局唯一ID生成服务。

SnowFlake算法生成id的结果是一个64bit大小的整数,它的结构如下图(盗图一张):

Twitter的分布式自增ID雪花算法snowflake (Java版)_java

package com.example.demo.Utils.DistributedUtils;

/**
* 描述: Twitter的分布式自增ID雪花算法snowflake (Java版)
*/
public class SnowFlake {

/**
* 起始的时间戳
*/
private final static long START_STMP = 1480166465631L;

/**
* 每一部分占用的位数
*/
private final static long SEQUENCE_BIT = 12; //序列号占用的位数
private final static long MACHINE_BIT = 5; //机器标识占用的位数
private final static long DATACENTER_BIT = 5;//数据中心占用的位数

/**
* 每一部分的最大值
*/
private final static long MAX_DATACENTER_NUM = -1L ^ (-1L << DATACENTER_BIT);
private final static long MAX_MACHINE_NUM = -1L ^ (-1L << MACHINE_BIT);
private final static long MAX_SEQUENCE = -1L ^ (-1L << SEQUENCE_BIT);

/**
* 每一部分向左的位移
*/
private final static long MACHINE_LEFT = SEQUENCE_BIT;
private final static long DATACENTER_LEFT = SEQUENCE_BIT + MACHINE_BIT;
private final static long TIMESTMP_LEFT = DATACENTER_LEFT + DATACENTER_BIT;

private long datacenterId; //数据中心
private long machineId; //机器标识
private long sequence = 0L; //序列号
private long lastStmp = -1L;//上一次时间戳

public SnowFlake(long datacenterId, long machineId) {
if (datacenterId > MAX_DATACENTER_NUM || datacenterId < 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("datacenterId can't be greater than MAX_DATACENTER_NUM or less than 0");
}
if (machineId > MAX_MACHINE_NUM || machineId < 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("machineId can't be greater than MAX_MACHINE_NUM or less than 0");
}
this.datacenterId = datacenterId;
this.machineId = machineId;
}

/**
* 产生下一个ID
*
* @return
*/
public synchronized long nextId() {
long currStmp = getNewstmp();
if (currStmp < lastStmp) {
throw new RuntimeException("Clock moved backwards. Refusing to generate id");
}

if (currStmp == lastStmp) {
//相同毫秒内,序列号自增
sequence = (sequence + 1) & MAX_SEQUENCE;
//同一毫秒的序列数已经达到最大
if (sequence == 0L) {
currStmp = getNextMill();
}
} else {
//不同毫秒内,序列号置为0
sequence = 0L;
}

lastStmp = currStmp;

return (currStmp - START_STMP) << TIMESTMP_LEFT //时间戳部分
| datacenterId << DATACENTER_LEFT //数据中心部分
| machineId << MACHINE_LEFT //机器标识部分
| sequence; //序列号部分
}

private long getNextMill() {
long mill = getNewstmp();
while (mill <= lastStmp) {
mill = getNewstmp();
}
return mill;
}

private long getNewstmp() {
return System.currentTimeMillis();
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
SnowFlake snowFlake = new SnowFlake(2, 3);

long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
System.out.println(snowFlake.nextId());
}

System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - start);


}
}

snowflake生成的ID整体上按照时间自增排序,所有生成的id按时间趋势递增
整个分布式系统内不会产生重复id(因为有datacenterId和workerId来做区分)