difference between HashMap, Hashset and hashTable?
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HashMap -
1) unsynchronized and unordered
2) Allow one null key , multiple null values
HashTable -
1) synchronized and unordered
2) Doesn't allow null key and value
HashSet -
1) synchronized and ordered
2) Sort elements in ascending order , doesn't allow duplicate elements
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Answer / adarsh m thimmappa
HashTable is a hashing based key-value pair data structure
- doesn't allow null as key
- doesn't allow null as value as well
- not thread safe
- oldest map based data structure available since earlier versions of java
HashMap is a hashing based key-value pair data structure
- allow one null as key
- allows multiple null as more than one value
- not thread safe
HashSet is a hashing based set representation
- holds unique set of keys
- internally uses HashMap
- allows one null value
- not thread safe
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