Yesterday, during the talk of Ivan Zoratti, at the meeting with Marten Mickos and the Italian Team of SUN | MySQL in Rome, there was a question about Falcon performance: a guy pointed out that InnoDB is better than Falcon.
Well, this is not really the truth.
How many processors are you using for Falcon benchmarking?
Falcon is designed to make optimal use of modern large-memory multi-CPU/multi-core hardware. So when comparing performance of Falcon and InnoDB, you can’t leave this out of consideration!
Please, see the shoots below:
To learn more on the Falcon engine, you can attend this webinar:
- The Falcon Storage Engine in MySQL Server 6.0, by Jim Starkey, Principal Engineer/Senior Architect at MySQL AB.
Also note please that Falcon is in a beta stage, not alpha. The 6.0 binary may be labeled ‘alpha’ but it does contain the Falcon transaction engine beta!
More Resources on the Falcon Engine:
- Falcon Feature Preview: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon_Feature_Preview
- MySQL Forum dedicated to Falcon: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?133
- MySQL 6.0 download: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/6.0.html
Start playing with Falcon today! and thanks to the Falcon Team for their great and very interesting activities!