Thanks @rob, the difference between CockroachDB/Cloud Spanner vs MemSQL is really useful. I wasn’t aware of that.
Sorry for not providing the source of the benchmark visualization. I also should have mentioned that the benchmark was performed by Spatie on a MySQL server. Source: spatie/laravel-binary-uuid
I guess I have to perform a benchmark on MemSQL to see how BINARY and VARBINARY compares to each other both for a tradional random UUID and a COMB version.
I really like how PostgreSQL simplies working with UUIDs with the special UUID data type. It removes the need for converting between bytes and HEX strings in application. The CONVERT function will probably make it a little eaiser. Any chance MemSQL will support UUID natively in the near future?