Falcon is a transactional storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system currently available for preview in the MySQL website. It is currently in the beta stage of development, being worked at in a development tree based on the MySQL 5.2 release, for use in the upcoming MySQL 6.0. It is based on the Netfrastructure database engine.
Architecture analysis shows 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 (the current MySQL storage engines). 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.
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