https://pastebin.com/raw/fA0Fyyht

I had this similar issue with another plugin I think it has to do with not relocating hikaricp

I tried relocating com.zaxxer in shade and it didnt change anything

Relocating Hikari doesn't affect the driver itself - the driver is supplied by your underlying server instance. Given this bug isn't affecting the other 100's of servers at this stage this is on hold until we see verifications. I am not saying relocating Hikari isn't a good idea - just that I doubt it fixes a missing SQL driver.

I am not sure what is wrong with my server then, I was just using the latest paper as of this post right off their website

could it be due to using mariadb?

this only occurs with https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/gringotts installed, so it appears to be due to that plugin somehow (i have a server where I have a ton of plugins enabled for update testing)