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.

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.