MySQL's Falcon Nearing Alpha

Kaj Arno, vice president of community relations for MySQL AB, today confirmed that the company's Falcon high-volume, web-services oriented database core engine will be available in alpha for evaluation, performance-review and late feature requests only, starting later this week. The alpha release will be followed by a beta bugfix phase, but no timetable has yet been set. The product competes with the popular InnoDB and BerkeleyDB products, both produced by subsidiaries of Oracle Corp.

The Falcon release works with 32-bit Windows systems and both 32- and 64-bit Linux systems. Additional platform support is planned for later releases. It interoperates directly with MySQL 5.1, though current databases will need to be migrated to the new Falcon format.

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