The Falcon storage engine is part of the MySQL DBMS, and thus depends on the MySQL server. It's currently released within a special alpha build of MySQL and will be updated regularly during the alpha process. The production (GA) version of the Falcon storage engine will be incorporated into the next major version of MySQL along with other major new features.

Falcon is currently an Alpha release and should not be used in production environments. Falcon is currently only supported within a special fork of the MySQL release, termed MySQL -5.2-falcon. This release is not considered ready for production. The mysql-5.2-falcon tree is provided only for testing and evaluation of the Falcon storage engine.

Note that mysql-5.2-falcon tree may not include all feature or bug fixes that have been applied to previous releases of MySQL.