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    <h1>Welle</h1>
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    An expressive Clojure client for Riak
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    <h2>Clojuric</h2>
    <p>Work with Clojure data structures. No unnecessary abstractions. Simple and easy.</p>
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    <h2>Efficient</h2>
    <p>Welle has very low overhead over the Riak Java client thanks to heavy use of Clojure 1.3+ features (namely protocols)</p>
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    <h2>Automatic Serialization</h2>
    <p>Just tell Welle content type of the data you store and it will automatically serialize and deserialize it
      (for popular formats: JSON, Clojure reader, gzipped JSON, UTF-8 text)</p>
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    <h2>Modern Riak Features</h2>
    <p>Besides fundamental K/V operations, Welle supports secondary indexes, counters, Riak Search, map/reduce, link walking, both HTTP and Protocol Buffers transports</p>
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    <h2>Batteries Included</h2>
    <p>Welle makes it easier to do map/reduce with JavaScript resources, provides a clojure.core.cache implementation on top of Riak, a <a href="https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring">Ring</a> session store and more</p>
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    <h2>Built for the Future</h2>
    <p>Built from the ground up for Clojure 1.3+. Tested against 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 master snapshots.</p>
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