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 ## Storehaus [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/twitter/storehaus.png)](http://travis-ci.org/twitter/storehaus)
 
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 Storehaus is a library that makes it easy to work with asynchronous key value stores. Storehaus is built on top of Twitter's [Future](https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-core/src/main/scala/com/twitter/util/Future.scala).
 
 ### Storehaus-Core