What's the easiest/cheapest way to create a cloud-based SQL database?

Question

I have a website that I've built (hosted on Amazon S3) and it works great. The only problem is that all of the data is static. I'd like to create a SQL database in the cloud that would allow me to store basic text data from users after they submit forms. I'm still a novice web-developer but I've used sqlite3 for several of my Java desktop apps and I'd like to use that SQL knowledge to create this online database. I guess what i'm asking (in my ignorance) is: how can I create a sqlite-type database that is stored in the cloud and that I can query against using javascript?

Where do I get started? Is there a service like Amazon AWS or Azure or something where I can create this database and then use some sort of jQuery/Javascript API to query data from it? I don't need a ton of storage space and my queries would be very basic SQL type stuff.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For more flexibility, less service lock-in, and cheaper scalability: I would suggest CouchDB (though you would likely still use a hosting service like Cloudant). CouchDB can host your website, and provides a HTTP API for storing data, to which your client-side JavaScript can make REST calls.