Of course you can build an entire application within CouchDB, with just a tiny bit of bootstrapping. It ships with a very nice browser/editor, so you can store

Of course you can build an entire application within CouchDB, with just a tiny bit of bootstrapping. It ships with a very nice browser/editor, so you can store server-side JS as documents in the database, and have a stub that evals them. All that's missing is 280North's Atlas. Also, as someone who has to maintain such a thing, Access is a mediocre interface for putting frontends on databases.