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Introduction

Elephant is an object database for Common Lisp. It supports storing CLOS objects and most lisp primitives, and access to BTrees. It uses Sleepycat / Berkeley DB, a widely-distributed embedded database; many unix systems have it installed by default. Sleepycat is server-less, ACID compliant, transactional, process and thread safe, and fast relative to relational databases; hopefully Elephant inherits these properties.

Goals:

Join the Elephant mailing lists to ask your questions and receive updates. They're on the Elephant website at http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant.

Installation documents can be found in the file INSTALL.