MariaDB Access denied for user ‘root‘@‘localhost‘

The error is as follows

java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:129)
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.exceptions.SQLExceptionsMapping.translateException(SQLExceptionsMapping.java:122)
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:828)
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:448)
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:241)
	at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:198)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.util.DriverDataSource.getConnection(DriverDataSource.java:138)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newConnection(PoolBase.java:364)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newPoolEntry(PoolBase.java:206)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.createPoolEntry(HikariPool.java:476)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.checkFailFast(HikariPool.java:561)
	at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.<init>(HikariPool.java:115)

Solution

-- for MySQL
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'root';

-- for MariaDB
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED VIA mysql_native_password USING PASSWORD('root');

reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41645309/mysql-error-access-denied-for-user-rootlocalhost