In my previous post, I had explained how HashMap is the basic data-structure used in many popular big data stores including Hadoop HBase. But how is a HashMap actually implemented as?
The following links give a very good explanation of the internal working of a HashMap.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/hashmap-internal
http://howtodoinjava.com/2012/10/09/how-hashmap-works-in-java/
Whenever a key/value pair is added to the HashMap data structure, the key is hashed. The hash of the key determines in what 'bucket' or 'array index' the value would be stored at.
So what happens if there is a hash collision? The answer is - Each bucket is actually implemented as a LinkedList. The values are stored in a LinkedList. So for keys with same hash, a linear search is done in the linkedList.
The following links give a very good explanation of the internal working of a HashMap.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/hashmap-internal
http://howtodoinjava.com/2012/10/09/how-hashmap-works-in-java/
Whenever a key/value pair is added to the HashMap data structure, the key is hashed. The hash of the key determines in what 'bucket' or 'array index' the value would be stored at.
So what happens if there is a hash collision? The answer is - Each bucket is actually implemented as a LinkedList. The values are stored in a LinkedList. So for keys with same hash, a linear search is done in the linkedList.
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