Why doesn’t Java ship with a CopyOnWriteMap?

I guess this depends on your use case, but why would you need a CopyOnWriteMap when you already have a ConcurrentHashMap?

For a plain lookup table with many readers and only one or few updates it is a good fit.

Compared to a copy on write collection:

Read concurrency:

Equal to a copy on write collection. Several readers can retrieve elements from the map concurrently in a lock-free fashion.

Write concurrency:

Better concurrency than the copy on write collections that basically serialize updates (one update at a time). Using a concurrent hash map you have a good chance of doing several updates concurrently. If your hash keys are evenly distributed.

If you do want to have the effect of a copy on write map, you can always initialize a ConcurrentHashMap with a concurrency level of 1.

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