diff --git a/devstack/files/monasca-transform/monasca-transform.conf b/devstack/files/monasca-transform/monasca-transform.conf
index 1d13ec1..b585b95 100644
--- a/devstack/files/monasca-transform/monasca-transform.conf
+++ b/devstack/files/monasca-transform/monasca-transform.conf
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ data_driven_specs = monasca_transform.data_driven_specs.mysql_data_driven_specs_
 offsets_max_revisions = 10
 
 [database]
-server_type = mysql
+server_type = mysql:thin
 host = localhost
 database_name = monasca_transform
 username = m-transform
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ service_log_filename=monasca-transform.log
 spark_event_logging_enabled = true
 
 # A list of jars which Spark should use
-spark_jars_list = /opt/spark/current/lib/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-1.6.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/scala-library-2.10.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar,/usr/share/java/mysql.jar
+spark_jars_list = /opt/spark/current/lib/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-1.6.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/scala-library-2.10.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar,/opt/spark/current/lib/drizzle-jdbc-1.3.jar
 
 # A list of where the Spark master(s) should run
 spark_master_list = spark://localhost:7077
diff --git a/devstack/files/spark/spark-defaults.conf b/devstack/files/spark/spark-defaults.conf
index 7c83c21..8552ed9 100644
--- a/devstack/files/spark/spark-defaults.conf
+++ b/devstack/files/spark/spark-defaults.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-spark.driver.extraClassPath /usr/share/java/mysql.jar
-spark.executor.extraClassPath /usr/share/java/mysql.jar
+spark.driver.extraClassPath /opt/spark/current/lib/drizzle-jdbc-1.3.jar
+spark.executor.extraClassPath /opt/spark/current/lib/drizzle-jdbc-1.3.jar
 
 spark.blockManager.port 7100
 spark.broadcast.port 7105
diff --git a/devstack/plugin.sh b/devstack/plugin.sh
index e802a2b..f2a3195 100755
--- a/devstack/plugin.sh
+++ b/devstack/plugin.sh
@@ -65,13 +65,6 @@ function pre_install_spark {
 :
 }
 
-
-function install_mysql_connector {
-
-    sudo apt-get -y install libmysql-java
-
-}
-
 function install_java_libs {
 
     pushd /opt/spark/current/lib
@@ -356,8 +349,6 @@ function install_spark {
 
     sudo -u spark ln -sf /opt/spark/${SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION} /opt/spark/current
 
-    install_mysql_connector
-
     install_java_libs
 
     create_spark_directories
diff --git a/devstack/settings b/devstack/settings
index 6c17d7d..4f254ad 100644
--- a/devstack/settings
+++ b/devstack/settings
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ APACHE_MIRROR=${APACHE_MIRROR:-http://archive.apache.org/dist}
 BASE_KAFKA_VERSION=${BASE_KAFKA_VERSION:-0.8.1.1}
 SCALA_VERSION=${SCALA_VERSION:-2.10}
 KAFKA_VERSION=${KAFKA_VERSION:-${SCALA_VERSION}-${BASE_KAFKA_VERSION}}
-SPARK_JAVA_LIBS=("org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.10/0.8.1.1/kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar" "org/scala-lang/scala-library/2.10.1/scala-library-2.10.1.jar" "com/yammer/metrics/metrics-core/2.2.0/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar" "org/apache/spark/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10/${SPARK_VERSION}/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-${SPARK_VERSION}.jar")
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+SPARK_JAVA_LIBS=("org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.10/0.8.1.1/kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1.jar" "org/scala-lang/scala-library/2.10.1/scala-library-2.10.1.jar" "com/yammer/metrics/metrics-core/2.2.0/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar" "org/apache/spark/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10/${SPARK_VERSION}/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-${SPARK_VERSION}.jar" "org/drizzle/jdbc/drizzle-jdbc/1.3/drizzle-jdbc-1.3.jar")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/etc/monasca-transform.conf b/etc/monasca-transform.conf
index 915230c..9a5dd6c 100644
--- a/etc/monasca-transform.conf
+++ b/etc/monasca-transform.conf
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ data_driven_specs = monasca_transform.data_driven_specs.mysql_data_driven_specs_
 offsets_max_revisions = 10
 
 [database]
-server_type = mysql
+server_type = mysql:thin
 host = localhost
 database_name = monasca_transform
 username = m-transform
diff --git a/tests/unit/config/config_initializer_test.py b/tests/unit/config/config_initializer_test.py
index 9211cc6..05fa9e2 100644
--- a/tests/unit/config/config_initializer_test.py
+++ b/tests/unit/config/config_initializer_test.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class TestConfigInitializer(unittest.TestCase):
             'mysql_data_driven_specs_repo:MySQLDataDrivenSpecsRepo',
             cfg.CONF.repositories.data_driven_specs)
 
-        self.assertEqual('mysql',
+        self.assertEqual('mysql:thin',
                          cfg.CONF.database.server_type)
         self.assertEqual('localhost',
                          cfg.CONF.database.host)