Commercial Web-Based Databases: http://quickbase.com https://www.zoho.com/creator/ https://www.knack.com/ https://bubble.io/ https://airtable.com/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.appsheet.com/ https://ninox.com/en https://www.honeycode.aws/ https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.fusioo.com/

Surprisingly, there's not much in the way of open source with the same level of functionality as above. Here's a few:

https://cortezaproject.org/ https://www.openxava.org/ https://www.joget.org/ https://www.nubuilder.com/ https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html https://baserow.io/

Access still exists, although I haven't used it in a long time

Alternatively, you can access Google Sheets with SQL queries, although I guess it probably wouldn't be great, but Google Forms + Sheets?

Force.com/Salesforce - literally the reason I pushed our business unit to purchase a couple dozen Force.com-only licenses was we had teams that needed really simple apps to store and track data and my team (internal development) did not have the bandwidth to make them with our traditional stacks.

Had something up within 48 hours, still working and worth it to this day.

> what would be the Access equivalent of today

Access.

Sqlite plus some kind of scripting language plus some graphical viewer for that database.

The phpmyadmin(backed by mysql), html4, and apache mod_php platform, probably deserves an mention here as it did play an huge part in the migration from offline PC databases to online webapp's in the space where MS Access was prevalent.

The conventional wisdom in 2021 would probably lean toward python+flask+postgre rather then the traditional lamp stack but i am not sure that's actually an superior solution for the entry level user/designer compared.

We are working on it (starting from the VBA interpreter).

Simple CRUD apps with Python + Flask or Django I‘d say.

Airtable

GnuCobol? Text mode only.

Thank you for all the suggestions! Will check them out!

glide

https://www.glideapps.com

Sharepoint forms.

Oracle Apex is probably the best

One of the low- or no-code tools.