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13.8. The Falcon Storage Engine

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13.8.1. Falcon Features
13.8.2. Configuration Parameters
13.8.3. Creating the Falcon Tablespace
13.8.4. Creating Tables and Indexes within Falcon
13.8.5. Obtaining Performance Diagnostics
13.8.6. Principles and Terminology
13.8.7. Notes and Limits
13.8.8. Falcon Roadmap

The Falcon Storage Engine has been designed with modern database requirements in mind, and particularly for use within high-volume web serving or other environment that requires high performance, while still supporting the transactional and logging functionality required in this environment.

Table 13.7. Falcon Features

Storage limits 512ZB Transactions Yes Locking granularity Row
MVCC Yes Geospatial datatype support No Geospatial indexing support No
B-tree indexes Yes Hash indexes No Full-text search indexes No
Clustered indexes No Data caches Yes Index caches Yes
Compressed data Yes Encrypted data[a] Yes Cluster database support No
Replication support[b] Yes Foreign key support No Backup / point-in-time recovery[c] Yes
Query cache support Yes Update statistics for data dictionary Yes    

[a] Implemented in the server (via encryption functions), rather than in the storage engine.

[b] Implemented in the server, rather than in the storage engine

[c] Implemented in the server, rather than in the storage engine

Falcon is available for the 32-bit Windows and 32-bit or 64-bit Linux operating systems. As of MySQL 6.0.4 and later, support is also provided for Mac OS X on x86 or PowerPC and Solaris/Linux on SPARC platforms. We intend to support Falcon on additional platforms in future MySQL releases.