diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/store/primitives/DefaultConsistentMultimap.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/store/primitives/DefaultConsistentMultimap.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.onosproject.store.primitives;
+
+import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Multiset;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.AsyncConsistentMultimap;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.ConsistentMapException;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.ConsistentMultimap;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.Synchronous;
+import org.onosproject.store.service.Versioned;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of {@link ConsistentMultimap} providing synchronous access to
+ * {@link AsyncConsistentMultimap}.
+ */
+public class DefaultConsistentMultimap<K, V>
+        extends Synchronous<AsyncConsistentMultimap<K, V>>
+        implements ConsistentMultimap<K, V> {
+
+    private final AsyncConsistentMultimap<K, V> asyncMultimap;
+    private final long operationTimeoutMillis;
+
+    public DefaultConsistentMultimap(
+            AsyncConsistentMultimap<K, V> asyncMultimap,
+            long operationTimeoutMillis) {
+        super(asyncMultimap);
+        this.asyncMultimap = asyncMultimap;
+        this.operationTimeoutMillis = operationTimeoutMillis;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int size() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.size());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean containsKey(K key) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.containsKey(key));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean containsValue(V value) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.containsValue(value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean containsEntry(K key, V value) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.containsEntry(key, value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean put(K key, V value) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.put(key, value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean remove(K key, V value) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.remove(key, value));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean removeAll(K key, Collection<? extends V> values) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.removeAll(key, values));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> removeAll(K key) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.removeAll(key));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean putAll(K key, Collection<? extends V> values) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.putAll(key, values));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> replaceValues(
+            K key, Collection<V> values) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.replaceValues(key, values));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void clear() {
+        complete(asyncMultimap.clear());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> get(K key) {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.get(key));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<K> keySet() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.keySet());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Multiset<K> keys() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.keys());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Multiset<V> values() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.values());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Collection<Map.Entry<K, V>> entries() {
+        return complete(asyncMultimap.entries());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<K, Collection<V>> asMap() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This operation is not yet " +
+                                                        "supported.");
+        //FIXME implement this when a new version of ConsistentMapBackedJavaMap is made for multimaps
+    }
+
+    private <T> T complete(CompletableFuture<T> future) {
+        try {
+            return future.get(operationTimeoutMillis, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            throw new ConsistentMapException.Interrupted();
+        } catch (TimeoutException e) {
+            throw new ConsistentMapException.Timeout();
+        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
+            Throwables.propagateIfPossible(e.getCause());
+            throw new ConsistentMapException(e.getCause());
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/store/service/ConsistentMultimap.java b/core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/store/service/ConsistentMultimap.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.onosproject.store.service;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Multiset;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * This provides a synchronous version of the functionality provided by
+ * {@link AsyncConsistentMultimap}.  Instead of returning futures this map
+ * blocks until the future completes then returns the result.
+ */
+public interface ConsistentMultimap<K, V> extends DistributedPrimitive {
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of key-value pairs in this multimap.
+     * @return the number of key-value pairs
+     */
+    int size();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns if this multimap contains no key-value pairs.
+     * @return true if no key-value pairs exist, false otherwise
+     */
+    boolean isEmpty();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if there is at lease one key-value pair with a key equal to
+     * key.
+     * @param key the key to query
+     * @return true if the map contains a
+     * key-value pair with key false otherwise
+     */
+    boolean containsKey(K key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if this map contains at lease one key-value pair with a
+     * value equal to value.
+     * @param value the value to query
+     * @return true if there is a key-value pair with the specified value,
+     * false otherwise.
+     */
+    boolean containsValue(V value);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if this map contains at least one key-value pair with key
+     * and value specified.
+     * @return true if there is a key-value pair with the specified key and
+     * value, false otherwise.
+     */
+    boolean containsEntry(K key, V value);
+
+    /**
+     * If the key-value pair does not already exist adds either the key value
+     * pair or the value to the set of values associated with the key and
+     * returns true, if the key-value pair already exists then behavior is
+     * implementation specific with some implementations allowing duplicates
+     * and others ignoring put requests for existing entries.
+     * @param key the key to add
+     * @param value the value to add
+     * @return true if the map has changed because of this call,
+     * false otherwise
+     */
+    boolean put(K key, V value);
+
+    /**
+     * Removes the key-value pair with the specified values if it exists. In
+     * implementations that allow duplicates which matching entry will be
+     * removed is undefined.
+     * @param key the key of the pair to be removed
+     * @param value the value of the pair to be removed
+     * @return true if the map changed because of this call, false otherwise.
+     */
+    boolean remove(K key, V value);
+
+    /**
+     * Removes the key-value pairs with the specified key and values if they
+     * exist. In implementations that allow duplicates each instance of a key
+     * will remove one matching entry, which one is not defined. Equivalent to
+     * repeated calls to {@code remove()} for each key value pair but more
+     * efficient.
+     * @param key the key of the pair to be removed
+     * @param values the set of values to be removed
+     * @return true if the map changes because of this call, false otherwise.
+     */
+    boolean removeAll(K key, Collection<? extends V> values);
+
+    /**
+     * Removes all values associated with the specified key as well as the key
+     * itself.
+     * @param key the key whose key-value pairs will be removed
+     * @return the set of values that were removed, which may be empty, if the
+     * values did not exist the version will be less than one.
+     */
+    Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> removeAll(K key);
+
+    /**
+     * Adds the set of key-value pairs of the specified key with each of the
+     * values in the iterable if each key-value pair does not already exist,
+     * if the pair does exist the behavior is implementation specific.
+     * (Same as repeated puts but with efficiency gains.)
+     * @param key the key to use for all pairs to be added
+     * @param values the set of values to be added in pairs with the key
+     * @return true if any change in the map results from this call,
+     * false otherwise
+     */
+    boolean putAll(K key, Collection<? extends V> values);
+
+    /**
+     * Stores all the values in values associated with the key specified,
+     * removes all preexisting values and returns a collection of the removed
+     * values which may be empty if the entry did not exist.
+     * @param key the key for all entries to be added
+     * @param values the values to be associated with the key
+     * @return the collection of removed values, which may be empty
+     */
+    Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> replaceValues(K key,
+                                                     Collection<V> values);
+
+    /**
+     * Removes all key-value pairs, after which it will be empty.
+     * @return irrelevant, simply used to determine if the call has completed
+     */
+    void clear();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection of values associated with the specified key, if the
+     * key is not in the map it will return an empty collection.
+     * @param key the key whose associated values will be returned
+     * @return the collection of the values
+     * associated with the specified key, the collection may be empty
+     */
+    Versioned<Collection<? extends V>> get(K key);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a set of the keys contained in this multimap with one or more
+     * associated values.
+     * @return the collection of all keys with one or more associated values,
+     * this may be empty
+     */
+    Set<K> keySet();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a multiset of the keys present in this multimap with one or more
+     * associated values each. Keys will appear once for each key-value pair
+     * in which they participate.
+     * @return a multiset of the keys, this may be empty
+     */
+    Multiset<K> keys();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection of values in the set with duplicates permitted, the
+     * size of this collection will equal the size of the map at the time of
+     * creation.
+     * @return a collection of values, this may be empty
+     */
+    Multiset<V> values();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a collection of each key-value pair in this map.
+     * @return a collection of all entries in the map, this may be empty
+     */
+    Collection<Map.Entry<K, V>> entries();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a map of keys to collections of values that reflect the set of
+     * key-value pairs contained in the multimap, where the key value pairs
+     * would be the key paired with each of the values in the collection.
+     * @return a map of keys to collections of values, the returned map may be
+     * empty.
+     */
+    Map<K, Collection<V>> asMap();
+}