If you don't want the hassle of dealing with deployment and don't mind going all out with JavaScript, which you will need to pick up anyway, then let me recommend a startup I'm helping out: http://www.akshell.com
We have a pretty straightforward database library which lets you avoid writing SQL but isn't a full blown ORM that you can check out here: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.3/guide/db/
We have a pretty straightforward database library which lets you avoid writing SQL but isn't a full blown ORM that you can check out here: http://www.akshell.com/docs/0.3/guide/db/