I use mysql for this purpose, and it's very easy to connect to mysql aswell.
Actually about most of the online server providers also include a mysql db at some spot, so maybe this would work?
You might have a look at the homepage of hsqldb .. to find some tutorials on the connection to db in case of emergency [originally posted on jforum.net by Sid]
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