Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Database

Microsoft Access

842 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Database

1,185 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Access	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.	$139.99 per PC
Oracle Database	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.	$0.05 per hour

Pricing

Microsoft Access

Oracle Database

Microsoft Access: $139.99
per PC

Oracle Base Database Service - Standard: $0.0538
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise: $0.1075
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance: $0.2218
per hour
Standard Edition: Contact Sales
Enterprise Edition: Contact Sales
Personal Edition: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Access	Oracle Database
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft Access	Oracle Database
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Access SharePoint lists MySQL Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Access Being a similar "Windows application" it's easier to start to use as part of Office. Also, the GUI capabilities are much more advanced than other high-performance databases. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Access MS Access is the little brother to all these products. In no way is it as feature-rich as the competition I have selected. It is, however, great when used properly. It does not have the same level of security, availability, access, or recoverability as anything listed above. … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Verified User Chose Oracle Database Oracle is more of an enterprise-level database than Access and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise isn't getting developed much (some people wonder how close it is to end of life) but SQL Server is miles ahead of Oracle IMO in terms of user experience and comparable in terms of … Incentivized Helpful? Bennett Walker PeopleSoft Development Team Leader in Information Technology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Oracle Database Oracle 12c delivers a vastly superior and robust optimizer and thread management comparative to other database products that I have used. While other databases may be less costly, Oracle 12c gives the best enterprise data management solution by providing better data integrity, … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Metropulos Product Manager in Product Management at Atkore International (Building Materials, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Oracle Database With Oracle's Database, you're dealing with a faster cloud functionality, more ample community support, and the advantage of stitching a host of other Oracle products to enhance your system. Even though you're tied into the Oracle ecosystem, it is one of the best ones out there … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Database I personally have also supported both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgresSQL. We have used Microsoft SQL Server for some smaller projects where the vendor only supports that environment. But whenever there is a choice, we use Oracle Database 12c. Students access our systems at all … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Access	Oracle Database
Likelihood to Recommend	5.0 (99 ratings)	9.0 (178 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (15 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (5 ratings)	7.4 (5 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.4 (5 ratings)	7.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.6 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)