Ha! I see the resemblance, but they're actually opposites. Access adds visual layers between you and your data, while this LISP approach removes them. Access makes databases more approachable to non-programmers through GUIs, while this example makes programming more direct by collapsing all those abstraction layers into pure code. Same problems, completely different philosophies!
The way I see it, the problem being addressed here is that there is structured data (for some definition of "structured"), and we are in search of a useful visual representation of that data in various aggregates.
Lisp is a fantastic tool for accomplishing this, but to me, Access is tailor-made for exactly this problem (and a whole lot more besides, it's a beast). If one follows the trail of the original problem far enough, I think one is likely to end up with an Access-like solution regardless of implementation language.
