Storage Engine for MySQL--Falcon

MySQL/Sun released a new storage engine "Falcon" in January, 2007. Falcon is a high performance transactional (fully compliant with ACID) storage engine, which is beta at this time (June 2008). In this article, I describe Falcon's features and its architecture in detail.

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http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/falcon-in-depth.html