Rather than store all the data in some type of sorted order, the data is to be stored and accessed on the basis of a hashkey that is computed by a function...
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Hashkey
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...thus minimizing the number of I/Os needed to search through the chain for a single hashkey value.
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...the qualifier would indicate the hashkey that returns the single required object rather than the whole set.
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