This was a good replacement for MS Access in its desktop version. This is because the lack of a desktop version license type Community Edition (CE) helps it to fulfil this role. Not all developers can afford the learning curve paying for it.

It is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool to build business apps that lets you work with many diverse data stores and build tables and forms easily.

For example: A little SMB organization could build almost all business apps with it and give its users access from any type of device, from anywhere. This would only need to be programmed and deployed one time.