Access

Based on 1183 responses from 205 people, we've built up the following picture of Access

Ranked high for:

  1. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  2. This database has an unusual data model
  3. This database can be a bit arcane
  4. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  5. This database is very easy to get started with
  6. This database has a very restrictive data model
  7. This database has a low footprint
  8. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  9. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  10. This database is good for performing many small operations on data

Ranked low for:

  1. This database has very good read performance
  2. This database is very reliable
  3. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  4. This database has very good write performance
  5. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  6. This database is highly scalable
  7. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  8. This database is good for querying time series
  9. This database has a good community around it
  10. This database has a good story for replication

Most similar to

  1. Excel
  2. h2
  3. Derby
  4. neo4j
  5. Flat files

Most dissimilar from

  1. Phoenix
  2. kdb
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. Oracle
  5. DB2

All statements

  1. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  2. This database has an unusual data model
  3. This database can be a bit arcane
  4. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  5. This database is very easy to get started with
  6. This database has a very restrictive data model
  7. This database has a low footprint
  8. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  9. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  10. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  11. This database has a very flexible data model
  12. I am familiar with this database
  13. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  14. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  15. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  16. This database is good for querying graph structures
  17. This database has a good story for replication
  18. This database has a good community around it
  19. This database is good for querying time series
  20. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  21. This database is highly scalable
  22. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  23. This database has very good write performance
  24. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  25. This database is very reliable
  26. This database has very good read performance