You need to create a new transaction table in Cloud Spanner that stores product sales data. You are deciding what to use as a primary key. From a performance perspective, which strategy should you choose?
A) The current epoch time
B) A concatenation of the product name and the current epoch time
C) A random universally unique identifier number (version 4 UUID)
D) The original order identification number from the sales system, which is a monotonically increasing integer

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Using a random UUID as a primary key helps distribute data evenly across nodes, avoiding hotspots and improving performance in distributed databases like Cloud Spanner.

You Need to Create a New Transaction Table in Cloud