Spring Boot - Cannot determine embedded database driver class for database type NONE

You haven't provided Spring Boot with enough information to auto-configure a DataSource. To do so, you'll need to add some properties to application.properties with the spring.datasource prefix. Take a look at DataSourceProperties to see all of the properties that you can set.

You'll need to provide the appropriate url and driver class name:

spring.datasource.url = …
spring.datasource.driver-class-name = …

If you want to use embedded H2 database from Spring Boot starter add the below dependency to your pom file.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
        <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.156</version>
    </dependency>

But as mentioned in comments, the embedded H2 database keeps data in memory and doesn't stores it permanently.

I'd the same problem and excluding the DataSourceAutoConfiguration solved the problem.

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude={DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})
public class RecommendationEngineWithCassandraApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(RecommendationEngineWithCassandraApplication.class, args);
    }
}