{"id":15482,"date":"2024-03-15T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-hashmap-and-hashtable-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:59:21","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-hashmap-and-hashtable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-hashmap-and-hashtable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between HashMap and Hashtable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HashMap and Hashtable are both data structures used for storing key-value pairs, but they have the following differences:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Thread safety: Hashtable is thread-safe, while HashMap is not. In a multi-threaded environment, when multiple threads access Hashtable simultaneously, it will automatically synchronize to ensure thread safety. On the other hand, in a multi-threaded environment, HashMap may encounter concurrent modification exceptions if additional synchronization is not implemented.<\/li>\n<li>Empty key and value: Hashtable does not allow storing null keys or null values, trying to do so will result in a NullPointerException. In contrast, HashMap allows for storing one empty key and multiple empty values.<\/li>\n<li>Iterators: The iterator of Hashtable is fail-fast, meaning that if another thread makes structural modifications (such as adding or deleting elements) to the Hashtable during iteration, it will throw a ConcurrentModificationException. On the other hand, the iterator of HashMap is not fail-fast and allows elements to be added or removed during iteration.<\/li>\n<li>Inheritance: Hashtable is implemented based on the Dictionary class, while HashMap is implemented based on the AbstractMap class. 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