Parameters are configured through the standard my.cnf or my.ini file. Parameters can be configured by specifying the parameter name and the corresponding value, separated by a space. Memory values can be specified in bytes, or with a number followed by kb, mb or gb.

The relationship between the record cache and the page cache is driven by the information that is cached by each system. Whole records that are in active use (being read or updated) are stored within the record cache, however, BLOB data is stored only within the page cache.

The page cache is used to store database metadata, BLOB data and table indexes.

Falcon parameters can be also be set on the command-line to mysqld using the following command-line options:

You can also enable and disable the Falcon storage engine at startup by supplying these options to mysqld, providing that the mysqld binary includes the Falcon Storage Engine.