Quarkus uses vert.x for web. What it does is provides a standard way with instructions to build a native image (along with some added functionality). I don't know if it's easy to build a native image from just vert.x app.
About database, sorry, I have no idea. Check out JDBI, JOOQ, those are most popular ones, AFAIK.
Also Quarkus adds reactive API to hibernate and some API to simplify some mundane Hibernate API, so maybe you'll like it.