Falcon

Falcon was a transactional storage engine being developed for the MySQL relational database management system.

History

Development was stopped after Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, which previously purchased MySQL.

Tech Docs

http://download.nust.na/pub6/mysql/tech-resources/articles/falcon-in-depth.html

Developer

Sun Microsystems

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2006

• http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3600861

End Year

2010

• https://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3876206/Oracle-Commits-to-MySQL-with-InnoDB.htm

Acquired By

Oracle

• https://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3876206/Oracle-Commits-to-MySQL-with-InnoDB.htm

Project Type

Commercial, Open Source

Derived From

MySQL

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(storage_engine)