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I recently thought about this, too. Is there any cloud-based, simple relational database, aimed at non-programmers?


Microsoft Access is a database aimed at non-programmers. I'm not really sure why you would care if it's cloud-based or not if you aren't a programmer though. You could have Access save your database file to One Drive or something. Access also integrates with SQL Server and you can probably get a free tier one on Azure.


Microsoft is aiming to replace it with their easy to use Power App platform. Plenty of people and companies are working on this problem


Excel, web version.

( https://www.google.com/search?q=%22excel+database%22 )


QuickBase and Knack are along those lines.

A long time ago I used QuickBase. It was like a Google sheets before google sheets and you could couple multiple sheets together, relating them.

It has probably come a long way since then, but ironically, I can't get past the marketing ui of the website to see how it really works.

Fucking marketing people love to hide the product behind bullshit.


Interesting. What do you envision non-programmers would do with it?


Airtable


Airbase.




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