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HashMap vs ConcurrentHashMap Explained

ConcurrentHashMap is thread-safe while HashMap is not. HashMap can be made thread-safe by wrapping it in Collections.synchronizedMap(), but this synchronizes access to the entire map. ConcurrentHashMap partitions the map internally and locks only portions for better concurrency and performance than fully synchronizing HashMap. It also does not allow null keys unlike HashMap which allows only one null key.

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HashMap vs ConcurrentHashMap Explained

ConcurrentHashMap is thread-safe while HashMap is not. HashMap can be made thread-safe by wrapping it in Collections.synchronizedMap(), but this synchronizes access to the entire map. ConcurrentHashMap partitions the map internally and locks only portions for better concurrency and performance than fully synchronizing HashMap. It also does not allow null keys unlike HashMap which allows only one null key.

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HashMap vs ConcurrentHashMap

1. Thread -Safe :
ConcurrentHashMap is thread-safe that is the code can be
accessed by single thread at a time .
while HashMap is not thread-safe .

2. Synchronization Method :
HashMap can be synchronized by using
synchronizedMap(HashMap) method . By using this
method we get a HashMap object which is equivalent
to the HashTable object . So every modification is performed
on Map is locked on Map object.

import [Link].*;
public class HashMapSynchronization {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// create map
Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<String,String>();
// populate the map
[Link]("1","ALIVE ");
[Link]("2","IS");
[Link]("3","AWESOME");
// create a synchronized map

Map<String,String> syncMap = [Link](map);


[Link]("Synchronized map :"+syncMap);
}
}

ConcurrentHashMap synchronizes or locks on the certain portion of the Map


. To optimize
the performance of ConcurrentHashMap , Map is divided into different
partitions depending
upon the Concurrency level . So that we do not need to synchronize the
whole Map Object.

3. Null Key

ConcurrentHashMap does not allow NULL values . So the key can not be
null in
ConcurrentHashMap .While In HashMap there can only be one null key .

4. Performance
In multiple threaded environment HashMap is usually faster than
ConcurrentHashMap . As
only single thread can access the certain portion of the Map and thus
reducing the performance .
While in HashMap any number of threads can access the code at the
same time

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