Difference between HashMap, LinkedHashMap and TreeMap

Question

What is the difference between HashMap, LinkedHashMap and TreeMap in Java? I don\'t see any difference in the output as all the three

Answer 1

HashMap makes absolutely not guarantees about the iteration order. It can (and will) even change completely when new elements are added. TreeMap will iterate according to the "natural ordering" of the keys according to their compareTo() method (or an externally supplied Comparator). Additionally, it implements the SortedMap interface, which contains methods that depend on this sort order. LinkedHashMap will iterate in the order in which the entries were put into the map

Look at how performance varying..

Tree map which is an implementation of Sorted map. The complexity of the put, get and containsKey operation is O(log n) due to the Natural ordering