LeetCode - 150 - Time Based Key-Value Store

The problem Design a time-based key-value data structure that can store multiple values for the same key at different timestamps 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 "". Examples 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 <= 10^7 All the timestamps of set are strictly increasing. At most 2 * 10^5 calls will be made to set and get. Explanation Our objective for this task is to design a key-value store. We are going to have a key, and a list of values associated with that key, and each value is going to have a timestamp associated with it. As for operations, we are going to support only set and get operations. Now, let’s look at our example ...

July 6, 2025 · 5 min · Dmytro Chumakov