The main goals of Falcon are to exploit large memory for more than just a bigger cache, to use threads and processors for data migration.

You can find a video-presentation on Falcon in the MySQL_Tutorials category.

What is Falcon

• transactional MySQL storage engine
• based on Netfrastructure database engine
• engine has been in mission critical apps for more than 4 years
• extended and integrated into MySQL

Falcon is NOT

• an InnoDB clone
• Firebird
• a Firebird clone
• a standalone database management system
• Netfrastructure

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