Which data structure would you use: TreeMap or HashMap? (Java) [duplicate]

Answer 1

"When a key already exists it has the same performance as a HashMap." - That is just plain wrong. HashMap has O(1) insertion and TreeMap O(n log n). It'll take at least n log n checks to find out if it's in the table!

Answer 2

For this way, in my opinion, better use HashBag from Apache Commons Collections or HashMultiset from Guava or HashBag from Eclipse Collections (formaly GS Collections) or any following classes:

    Order    |  Guava           |   Apache  | Eclipse(GS) | JDK analog
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Not define   | HashMultiset     |   HashBag | HashBag     | HashMap<String, Integer>
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Sorted       | TreeMultiset     |   TreeBag | TreeBag     | TreeMap<String, Integer>
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Linked       |LinkedHashMultiset|     -     |     -       | LinkedHashMap<String, Integere>
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Concurrent & | ConcurrentHash-  |Synchroniz-|Synchroniz-  | Collections.synchronizedMap(
not define   | Multiset         |   edBag   | edBag       |       HashMap<String, Integer>)
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Concurrent   |         -        |Synchroniz-|Synchroniz-  | Collections.synchronizedSorted-
and sorted   |                  |edSortedBag| edSortedBag |       Map(TreeMap<>))
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Immutable and| ImmutableMultiset|Unmodifiab-|Unmodifiab-  | Collections.unmodifiableMap(
not define   |                  |   leBag   | leBag       | HashMap<String, Integer>)
─────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Immutable and| ImmutableSorted- |Unmodifiab-|Unmodifiab-  | Collections.unmodifiableSorted-
sorted       | Multiset         |leSortedBag| leSortedBag | Map(TreeMap<String, Integer>))
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Examples:

1. Using SynchronizedSortedBag from Apache:

    // Parse text to separate words
    String INPUT_TEXT = "Hello World! Hello All! Hi World!";
    // Create Multiset
    Bag bag = SynchronizedSortedBag.synchronizedBag(new TreeBag(Arrays.asList(INPUT_TEXT.split(" "))));

    // Print count words
    System.out.println(bag); // print [1:All!,2:Hello,1:Hi,2:World!]- in natural (alphabet) order
    // Print all unique words
    System.out.println(bag.uniqueSet());    // print [All!, Hello, Hi, World!]- in natural (alphabet) order


    // Print count occurrences of words
    System.out.println("Hello = " + bag.getCount("Hello"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("World = " + bag.getCount("World!"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("All = " + bag.getCount("All!"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Hi = " + bag.getCount("Hi"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Empty = " + bag.getCount("Empty"));    // print 0

    // Print count all words
    System.out.println(bag.size());    //print 6

    // Print count unique words
    System.out.println(bag.uniqueSet().size());    //print 4

2. Using TreeBag from Eclipse(GC):

    // Parse text to separate words
    String INPUT_TEXT = "Hello World! Hello All! Hi World!";
    // Create Multiset
    MutableSortedBag<String> bag =  TreeBag.newBag(Arrays.asList(INPUT_TEXT.split(" ")));

    // Print count words
    System.out.println(bag); // print [All!, Hello, Hello, Hi, World!, World!]- in natural order
    // Print all unique words
    System.out.println(bag.toSortedSet());    // print [All!, Hello, Hi, World!]- in natural order

    // Print count occurrences of words
    System.out.println("Hello = " + bag.occurrencesOf("Hello"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("World = " + bag.occurrencesOf("World!"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("All = " + bag.occurrencesOf("All!"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Hi = " + bag.occurrencesOf("Hi"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Empty = " + bag.occurrencesOf("Empty"));    // print 0

    // Print count all words
    System.out.println(bag.size());    //print 6

    // Print count unique words
    System.out.println(bag.toSet().size());    //print 4

3. Using LinkedHashMultiset from Guava:

    // Parse text to separate words
    String INPUT_TEXT = "Hello World! Hello All! Hi World!";
    // Create Multiset
    Multiset<String> multiset = LinkedHashMultiset.create(Arrays.asList(INPUT_TEXT.split(" ")));

    // Print count words
    System.out.println(multiset); // print [Hello x 2, World! x 2, All!, Hi]- in predictable iteration order
    // Print all unique words
    System.out.println(multiset.elementSet());    // print [Hello, World!, All!, Hi] - in predictable iteration order

    // Print count occurrences of words
    System.out.println("Hello = " + multiset.count("Hello"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("World = " + multiset.count("World!"));    // print 2
    System.out.println("All = " + multiset.count("All!"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Hi = " + multiset.count("Hi"));    // print 1
    System.out.println("Empty = " + multiset.count("Empty"));    // print 0

    // Print count all words
    System.out.println(multiset.size());    //print 6

    // Print count unique words
    System.out.println(multiset.elementSet().size());    //print 4

More examples you can find in my github projects

Answer 3

Basically it depend on the requirement. Sometimes hash map is good sometimes treemap. but hash map is better to use only their is some constraint for overhead to sort it.

Answer 4

Here is the java example for reading a text file, sorting based on key, then upon values; depending on the number of occurrence of a words in the file.

public class SortFileWords {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HashMap<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
        ValueCompare vc = new ValueCompare(map);
        TreeMap<String, Integer> sorted_map = new TreeMap<String, Integer>(map);
        List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
        Scanner sc;
        try {
            sc = new Scanner(new File("c:\\ReadMe1.txt"));
            while (sc.hasNext()) {
                list.add(sc.next());
            }
            sc.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        for (String s : list) {
            if (map.containsKey(s)) {
                map.put(s, map.get(s) + 1);
            } else
                map.put(s, 1);
        }

        System.out.println("Unsorted map: " + map);
        sorted_map.putAll(map);
        System.out.println("Sorted map on keys: " + sorted_map);

        TreeMap<String, Integer> sorted_value_map = new TreeMap<>(vc);
        sorted_value_map.putAll(map);
        System.out.println("Sorted map on values: " + sorted_value_map);
    }
}

class ValueCompare implements Comparator<String> {

    Map<String, Integer> map;

    public ValueCompare(Map<String, Integer> map) {
        this.map = map;
    }

    @Override
    public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
        if (map.get(s1) >= map.get(s2))
            return -1;
        else
            return 1;
    }
}

Answer 5

consider the frequency of addition or deletion to the data structure. TreeMap would not be ideal if it is high. Apart from the search for existing entry nLn it also undergoes frequent rebalancing.

on the other hand Hash structures are bit flamboyant on memory (over allocates). If you can bite that bullet then go for hash structure and sort when required.

Answer 6

Hash map should be much faster. You should not choose a container based on how you want the items to be arranged eventually; Just sort the list of (word, frequency)-pairs at the end. There will usually be less such pairs to be sorted than words in the files, so asymptotic (and real) performance with a hash map will be better.