diff --git a/src/main/java/linux/general/hackyquizbot/QuizBackend.java b/src/main/java/linux/general/hackyquizbot/QuizBackend.java
index 5feb500..6cd5e89 100644
--- a/src/main/java/linux/general/hackyquizbot/QuizBackend.java
+++ b/src/main/java/linux/general/hackyquizbot/QuizBackend.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ public class QuizBackend {
 
 	private static final String dbUsername = Main.getCommandLineArgument(1);
 	private static final String dbPassword = Main.getCommandLineArgument(2);
-	private static final String dbName = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/quizbot"; //we can make this configurable later
+	private static final String dbName = "jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/quizbot"; //we can make this configurable later
 
 	// CREATE TABLE questions(id INT(32) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, question TEXT, max_score INT(8));
 	// CREATE TABLE answer_coices(id INT(32), answer VARCHAR(2048), correctness BOOLEAN);