Spring-Hibernate started on remote tomcat server is not creating tables. Drop and create works, alo data.sql is picked up correctly on localhost - spring-boot

Question

Can not find the crucial reason why tables are not getting created under seamingly same conditions.
Spring tool suite 4.x is used for building the project/netbeans does the same.... ; the project is a maven built collection of code; both localhost and remote servers are using same mysql. the server is an Apache Tomcat 9 on Debian ...
Application.properties that works just fine on localhost:
spring.datasource.name=JAVAMAN2
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/JAVAMAN2?useSSL=false&useUnicode=true&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC&createDatabaseIfNotExist=true
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=password
#spring.datasource.password=
spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true
spring.jpa.show-sql=true
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create
spring.datasource.initialization-mode=always
This here makes no difference
spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true
My pom.xml looks like this:
<!-- BASIC -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING MAIL -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- THYMELEAF -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- MySQL Connector-J -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JODA TIME -->
<dependency>
<groupId>joda-time</groupId>
<artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- DEVTOOLS -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- CONFIG PROCESOR -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<!-- Google GSON -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- SPRING SECURITY -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- TOMCAT -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
There are no errors shown/logged in console. The application just runs, but wont create tables.
A few example entities
User
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
#Entity
#Table(name = "users")
public class User {
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
#Column(name = "USERNAME", nullable = false)
private String username;
#Column(name = "PASSWORD", nullable = false)
private String password;
#Column(name = "ENABLED", nullable = false)
private Integer enabled;
#Column(name = "CLIENT_DB", nullable = false)
private String client_db;
#Column(name = "KOM_SIF", nullable = false)
private String komSif;
#Column(name = "ITC_KOM_SIF", nullable = false)
private String itcKomSif;
#Column(name = "UNIKEY", nullable = true)
private String unikey;
#OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "user")
private Set<Authorities> authorities = new HashSet<>();
Authority
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
//import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
//import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
//import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;
#Entity
#Table(name = "authorities")
public class Authorities {
#Id
//#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
private Long id;
#Column(name = "AUTHORITY")
private String authority;
#ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
#JoinColumn(name = "id", insertable = false, updatable = false)
private User user;
getters and setters intensionally omitted from this post ...

Answer 1

It turned out that it is a MariaDB on the remote server, not a MySQL one.
I had to replace in the pom.xmlthe mysql connector dependency with:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mariadb.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>mariadb-java-client</artifactId>
</dependency>
Also changed 3 lines to the application.properties, driver class name, url and db dialect props have been altered
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3308/JAVAMAN2?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MariaDB53Dialect
Now it creates the requiered tables the same way as it does with MySQL