[java] HashSet vs LinkedHashSet

HashSet:

The underlined data structure is Hashtable. Duplicate objects are not allowed.insertion order is not preserved and it is based on hash code of objects. Null insertion is possible(only once). It implements Serializable, Clonable but not RandomAccess interface. HashSet is best choose if frequent operation is search operation.

In HashSet duplicates are not allowed.if users are trying to insert duplicates when we won't get any compile or runtime exceptions. add method returns simply false.

Constructors:

HashSet h=new HashSet(); creates an empty HashSet object with default initial capacity 16 and default fill ratio(Load factor) is 0.75 .

HashSet h=new HashSet(int initialCapacity); creates an empty HashSet object with specified initialCapacity and default fill ration is 0.75.

HashSet h=new HashSet(int initialCapacity, float fillRatio);

HashSet h=new HashSet(Collection c); creates an equivalent HashSet object for the given collection. This constructor meant for inter conversion between collection object.

LinkedHashSet:

It is a child class of HashSet. it is exactly same as HashSet including(Constructors and Methods) except the following differences.

Differences HashSet:

  1. The underlined data structure is Hashtable.
  2. Insertion order is not preserved.
  3. introduced 1.2 version.

LinkedHashSet:

  1. The underlined data structure is a combination of LinkedList and Hashtable.
  2. Insertion order is preserved.
  3. Indroduced in 1.4 version.