What are some of the modern hashing alternative for uniqueness? Mainly for speed, bit distribution, and collision risk while having small hash size. Not for cryptographic purpose.
xxhash (https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash) with 32/64 bit output. The latest version, xxh3, supports up to 128 bit output.
meow hash (https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash)
The recently released Blake3 which is designed to be cryptographically secure is very fast also (https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3)