<s>
Falcon	B-Language
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
transactional	B-General_Concept
storage	B-General_Concept
engine	I-General_Concept
being	O
developed	O
for	O
the	O
MySQL	B-Application
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
was	O
stopped	O
after	O
Oracle	B-Application
purchased	O
MySQL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Netfrastructure	B-Application
database	B-General_Concept
engine	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Falcon	B-Language
was	O
designed	O
to	O
take	O
advantage	O
of	O
Sun	O
's	O
ZFS	B-Application
file	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Architecture	O
analysis	O
showed	O
an	O
interesting	O
mixture	O
of	O
possible	O
performance	O
properties	O
,	O
while	O
low	O
level	O
benchmarks	O
on	O
the	O
first	O
alpha	O
release	O
in	O
5.1.14-falcon	O
showed	O
that	O
Falcon	B-Language
performed	O
differently	O
from	O
both	O
InnoDB	B-Language
and	O
MyISAM	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
did	O
better	O
in	O
several	O
tests	O
,	O
worse	O
in	O
others	O
,	O
with	O
inefficient	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
MySQL	B-Application
LIMIT	O
operation	O
a	O
limitation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
biggest	O
advantage	O
though	O
is	O
known	O
to	O
be	O
ease	O
of	O
use	O
;	O
Falcon	B-Language
requires	O
minimum	O
maintenance	O
and	O
designed	O
to	O
reconfigure	O
itself	O
automatically	O
to	O
handle	O
all	O
types	O
of	O
loads	O
efficiently	O
.	O
</s>
