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Snowflake ID Generator with Cluster Index Mock in Python

A thread-safe Snowflake ID generator mock that creates unique 64-bit IDs across simulated cluster nodes and maintains a sorted in-memory index for range queries.

snowflake id-generation clustering
Python 
import time
import threading

class SnowflakeIDGenerator:
    def __init__(self, machine_id, datacenter_id):
        self.machine_id = machine_id
        self.datacenter_id = datacenter_id
        self.sequence = 0
        self.last_timestamp = -1
        self.machine_bits = 5
        self.datacenter_bits = 5
        …
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