So you can for example use Access to connect to your MySQL server. Very fast B-tree disk tables with index compression. An index may be a prefix of a CHAR field. Fixed and variable length records. In memory hash tables which are used as temporary tables.
All columns have default values.
Uses GNU autoconf for portability. Tested with a broad range of different compilers. A very fast thread-based memory allocation system. No memory leaks. A very fast table check, optimize and repair utility.