Falcon & ASIcore

April 2007 - Aguila has begun a technical evaluation of the Falcon storage engine for use with its ASIcore™ framework. Falcon is currently in alpha development by MySQL AB. It delivers optimized performance when run on 64-bit servers such as those utilized by Aguila. Falcon's architecture features:

• True Multi Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) which virtually eliminates the need to lock tables or rows during the update process;
• Smart deadlock detection to keep operations flowing at full speed;
• Support for multiple threads allowing multiple transactions and fast transaction handling;
• Transaction-safe multiple concurrent transactions
• Data compression on the fly;
• In memory data and index caching.

Read more about the Falcon storage engine at mysql.com.