Time Based Key-Value Store

Description

Design a time-based key-value data structure that can store multiple values for the same key at different time stamps and retrieve the key’s value at a certain timestamp.

Implement the TimeMap class:

• TimeMap() Initializes the object of the data structure.
• void set(String key, String value, int timestamp) Stores the key key with the value value at the given time timestamp.
• String get(String key, int timestamp) Returns a value such that set was called previously, with timestamp_prev <= timestamp. If there are multiple such values, it returns the value associated with the largest timestamp_prev. If there are no values, it returns "".

Example 1:

Input [“TimeMap”, “set”, “get”, “get”, “set”, “get”, “get”] [[], [“foo”, “bar”, 1], [“foo”, 1], [“foo”, 3], [“foo”, “bar2”, 4], [“foo”, 4], [“foo”, 5]] Output [null, null, “bar”, “bar”, null, “bar2”, “bar2”]

Explanation TimeMap timeMap = new TimeMap(); timeMap.set(“foo”, “bar”, 1); // store the key “foo” and value “bar” along with timestamp = 1. timeMap.get(“foo”, 1); // return “bar” timeMap.get(“foo”, 3); // return “bar”, since there is no value corresponding to foo at timestamp 3 and timestamp 2, then the only value is at timestamp 1 is “bar”. timeMap.set(“foo”, “bar2”, 4); // store the key “foo” and value “bar2” along with timestamp = 4. timeMap.get(“foo”, 4); // return “bar2” timeMap.get(“foo”, 5); // return “bar2”

Constraints:

• 1 <= key.length, value.length <= 100
• key and value consist of lowercase English letters and digits.
• 1 <= timestamp <= 107
• All the timestamps timestamp of set are strictly increasing.
• At most 2 * 105 calls will be made to set and get.

Code

• std::upper_bound
• std::prev
• std::map 就是 C++ 中的 red black tree。

class TimeMap {
public:
    TimeMap() {
        
    }
    
    void set(string key, string value, int timestamp) {
        m[key][timestamp] = value;
    }
    
    string get(string key, int timestamp) {
        auto it = m[key].upper_bound(timestamp);
        return it == m[key].begin() ? "" : prev(it)->second;
    }
 
private:
    unordered_map<string, map<int, string>> m;
};
 
/**
 * Your TimeMap object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * TimeMap* obj = new TimeMap();
 * obj->set(key,value,timestamp);
 * string param_2 = obj->get(key,timestamp);
 */

Source

• Time Based Key-Value Store - LeetCode