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[Waldo Rubinstein]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Lisp and very new to Elephant. I'm thinking of  
developing some apps using UCW and Elephant and was wondering a few  
things:

1) Is Elephant ready for production code even though it's still on  
version 0.3.0?
2) How scalable is Elephant? I feel confident that Berkeley DB is  
very robust even for large data repositories. But, does Elephant  
scale well working with large repositories?
3) My application generates a lot of records. Some of these objects  
(records) have complex structures (many levels of inheritance and  
relations) and some are very flat. The ones that are very flat are  
normally very large quantities (at least for me). I may be generating  
about 10000 new simple objects on a daily basis. Does anyone have any  
suggestion as to the proper storage of these? Would using something  
like a btree be efficient enough for fast querying?
4) Is there any support for "LIKE" type searches in Elephant? Some of  
the queries I currently run against MySQL are along the lines of  
WHERE last_name LIKE 'smit%'. I would assume I could create secondary  
indices for last_name (as an attribute), but will it allow me to do  
"LIKE" searches?

Thanks for your support,
Waldo