Works on many different platforms. 4.2 Operating systems supported by MySQL . 7.2 Column types . Usually there shouldn't be any memory allocation at all after query initialization. A privilege and password system which is very flexible and secure, and which allows host-based verification.
Passwords are secure since all password traffic when connecting to a server is encrypted.
All ODBC 2.5 functions and many others. You can, for example, use Access to connect to your MySQL server. 16 MySQL ODBC Support . Very fast B-tree disk tables with index compression. 16 indexes per table are allowed.