You must have heard about Falcon, the new transactional engine being developed in MySQL 6.0. And for all the buzz, you may want to have a look at that.
If you haven’t had time to download and install it, now you can give it a try, thanks to db4free, a free MySQL hosting service, created by Markus Popp.

So, if you want to test Falcon today, get a (free) account on db4free and start hacking!
Be careful:

• MySQL 6.0 is still alpha software!
• The default storage engine in this db4free server is Falcon. When you create a new table, if you don’t specify an engine, you will create a Falcon table.

A sample session:

$ mysql -h db4free.net -u USER_NAME -pPASSWORD -P 3307 DB_NAME
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 125
Server version: 6.0.4-alpha-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql > create table t1 (id  int not null primary key, c char(20));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.15 sec)

mysql > show create table t1\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: t1
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `t1` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `c` char(20) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=Falcon DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
1 row in set (0.12 sec)

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