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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m looking for a object database to play with and
possibly adopt for future projects, and I’m reading elephant site and
manuals so far.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a few questions to clarify.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Reading Allegrocache site <a
href="http://www.franz.com/products/allegrocache/AllegroCache_for_ILC_2005.htm">http://www.franz.com/products/allegrocache/AllegroCache_for_ILC_2005.htm</a>
I stumbled into this remark:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>“In order to ensure isolation, the
Berkeley DB code employs aggressive locking and uses low level OS locking
primitives.  The result is that the Lisp application just froze when the
process was waiting for access to data. This does not fit well with Lisp's own
multithreading.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Since I’m interested to use elephant
with <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City> db,
I want to ask, how it fares in multi-user client-server environment?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Are there real life usage scenarios and if
yes, how many users and what size of database?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>Vagif Verdi.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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