Why there is no ConcurrentHashSet against ConcurrentHashMap
HashSet is based on HashMap. If we look at HashSet<E> implementation, everything is been managed under HashMap<E,Object> . <E> is used as a key of HashMap . And we know that HashMap is not thread safe. That is why we have ConcurrentHashMap in Java. Based on this, I am confused that why we don't have a ConcurrentHashSet which should be based on the ConcurrentHashMap ? Is there anything else that I am missing? I need to use Set in a multi-threaded environment. Also, If I want to create my own ConcurrentHashSet can I achieve it by just replacing the HashMap to ConcurrentHashMap and leaving the