The following list shows the most important properties of MySQL.

• Clients and Tools
• Localization
• Connectivity
• Scalability and Limits
• Security
• Data Types
• Client/Server Architecture
• Stored procedures
• Views
• SubSELECTs
• SQL compatibility
• Triggers
• Unicode
• User interface
• Full-text search
• Replication
• Transactions
• Foreign key constraints
• GIS functions
• Programming languages
• ODBC
• Platform independence
• Speed
• Relational Database System