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+@node Commercial Applications + +Elephant is used by Konsenti(tm), a for-profit company of Robert L. Read, one of the maintainers of Elephant. It can be visited at +@uref{http://konsenti.com%7D. Konsenti uses the Data Collection Management (DCM) package, which can be +found in the contrib directory, under user rread. DCM provides prevalence-style in-memory write-through caching. +The most enjoyable feature about Elephant for this project is that new Business Layer objects can be created without having to +deal with an Object-Relational Mapping, which has allowed extremely rapid development. All Business objects are persisted via +a director in DCM (which sits on top of Elephant.) Many of these business objects are in fact finite state machines decorated +with functions. The functions are represented by their lambda expression stored in slots on the business objects. A complete +Message Factory and double-entry accounting system are also implemented as DCM objects. Binary objects, such as uploaded +PDFs that can be attached to objects as comments, are treated as simple objects and stored directly in Elephant. Konsenti +is completely based on utf-8, and unicode characters outside of the ISO-9959-1 character set are routinely stored in +Elephant. Konsenti uses Postgres as a backend; but Elephant makes it so easy to migrate between repositories that we +could change this decision at any time. + + + +