Falcon (storage engine)
Storage engine for the MySQL relational database management systems
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Falcon is a discontinued[1] 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 | Jim Starkey |
| Developer | Sun Microsystems |
| Preview release | MySQL 6.0.9
/ January 10, 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Database engine |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
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,[citation needed] 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.
