Microsoft Access mdb and accdb database

URL

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/‎

Licence

Commercial/Proprietary software

Platforms

Windows

Pros

• Widely used database by end users.
• It comes with the GUI tools,and very user friendly.

Cons

• Windows only.

DB API 2.0 Drivers

pypyodbc （Pure Python)

URL

http://code.google.com/p/pypyodbc

License

MIT

Platforms

Windows, Linux

Python versions

2.4 - 3.3

On Windows Platform, PyPyODBC provide a set of methods to bring PyPyODBC's extra support for Access on Windows Platform

PyPyODBC is a pure Python script, it runs on CPython / IronPython / PyPy , Version 2.4 / 2.5 / 2.6 / 2.7 , Win / Linux , 32 / 64 bit.

Almost totally same usage as pyodbc ( can be seen as a re-implementation of pyodbc in pure Python ).

Simple - the whole module is implemented in a single python script with less than 3000 lines.

Built-in Access MDB file creation and compression functions on Windows.