Multimap

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Examples

• In a student enrollment system, where students may be enrolled in multiple classes simultaneously, there might be an association for each enrollment of a student in a course, where the key is the student ID and the value is the course ID. If a student is enrolled in three courses, there will be three associations containing the same key.
• The index of a book may report any number of references for a given index term, and thus may be coded as a multimap from index terms to any number of reference locations.
• Querystrings may have multiple values associated with a single field. This is commonly generated when a web form allows multiple check boxes or selections to be chosen in response to a single form element.

Language support

C++

C++'s Standard Template Library provides the multimap container for the sorted multimap using a self-balancing binary search tree, and SGI's STL extension provides the hash_multimap container, which implements a multimap using a hash table.

Dart

Quiver provides a Multimap for Dart.

Java

Apache Commons Collections provides a MultiMap interface for Java. It also provides a MultiValueMap implementing class that makes a MultiMap out of a Map object and a type of Collection.

Google Guava provides an interface Multimap and implementations.

OCaml

OCaml's standard library module Hashtbl implements a hash table where it's possible to store multiple values for a key.

Scala

The Scala programming language's API also provides Multimap and implementations

See also

• Abstract data type for the concept of type in general
• Associative array for the more fundamental abstract data type
• Multiset for the case where same item can appear several times