I wouldn’t call MS access a DB that is accessible to non programmers, it’s a local DB with rather limited capabilities and performance. You can create a front

I wouldn’t call MS access a DB that is accessible to non programmers, it’s a local DB with rather limited capabilities and performance. You can create a front end for non programmers to use for any DB, in fact MS Access when it was still part of Office could be used to manage remote DBs such as MSSQL. Now most of that functionality is embedded in Excel you can load and update tables fairly easily with external data sources. MS Access had a bit more functionality similar to some of the Oracle enterprise applications stack for local app development but it simply died when excel became more feature rich and when companies needed more than MS Access could offer. It basically came to the point where there was little real use for MS Access.