Falcon (storage engine)

Falcon was[1] a transactional storage engine being developed for the MySQL relational database management system. Development was stopped after Oracle purchased MySQL.[2] It was based on the Netfrastructure database engine. Falcon was designed to take advantage of Sun's zfs file system.

Falcon
Original author(s)Jim Starkey
Developer(s)Sun Microsystems
Preview release
MySQL 6.0.9 / January 10, 2009 (2009-01-10)
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeDatabase engine
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.mysql.com/mysql60/ 

Architecture analysis showed an interesting mixture of possible performance properties, while low level benchmarks on the first alpha release in 5.1.14-falcon showed that Falcon performed differently from both InnoDB and MyISAM.[3][4] It did better in several tests, worse in others, with inefficient support for the MySQL LIMIT operation a limitation. Its biggest advantage though is known to be ease of use; Falcon requires minimum maintenance and designed to reconfigure itself automatically to handle all types of loads efficiently.

See also

References
  1. "Oracle Discusses MySQL Database Plans".
  2. http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3876206/Oracle-Commits-to-MySQL-with-InnoDB.htm
  3. "Falcon Storage Engine Design Review". 2007-01-12.
  4. "InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks - part 1". 2007-01-08.


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