diff --git a/bin/run_pyl b/bin/run_pyl
index 5f07b141..57622a35 100755
--- a/bin/run_pyl
+++ b/bin/run_pyl
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for python_project in "${python_projects[@]}"; do
     pushd "$python_project"
     poetry install
     poetry run mypy $(get_python_dirs)
-    poetry run coverage run --parallel -m pytest
+    ./bin/tests-par
     popd
   fi
 done
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/Dockerfile b/spiffworkflow-backend/Dockerfile
index 9c518ed7..3795a8e4 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/Dockerfile
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ FROM base AS setup
 RUN pip install poetry==1.3.2
 RUN useradd _gunicorn --no-create-home --user-group
 
+# default-libmysqlclient-dev for mysqlclient lib
 RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y -q gcc libssl-dev libpq-dev
+ && apt-get install -y -q gcc libssl-dev libpq-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev pkg-config
 
 # poetry install takes a long time and can be cached if dependencies don't change,
 # so that's why we tolerate running it twice.
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/docker-compose.yml b/spiffworkflow-backend/docker-compose.yml
index 7100a536..4cecee14 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/docker-compose.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ services:
       - FLASK_SESSION_SECRET_KEY=${FLASK_SESSION_SECRET_KEY:-e7711a3ba96c46c68e084a86952de16f}
       - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_APPLICATION_ROOT=/
       - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_BPMN_SPEC_ABSOLUTE_DIR=/app/process_models
-      - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_URI=mysql+mysqlconnector://root:${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_MYSQL_ROOT_DATABASE:-my-secret-pw}@localhost:7003/${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_NAME:-spiffworkflow_backend_development}
+      - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_URI=mysql+mysqldb://root:${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_MYSQL_ROOT_DATABASE:-my-secret-pw}@127.0.0.1:7003/${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_NAME:-spiffworkflow_backend_development}
       - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_ENV=${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_ENV:-local_development}
       - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_LOAD_FIXTURE_DATA=${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_LOAD_FIXTURE_DATA:-false}
       - SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_OPEN_ID_SERVER_URL=${SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_OPEN_ID_SERVER_URL:-http://localhost:7002/realms/spiffworkflow}
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
index ba9bf7c0..563b3600 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/poetry.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.2 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.5.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "alembic"
 version = "1.10.3"
 description = "A database migration tool for SQLAlchemy."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ tz = ["python-dateutil"]
 name = "aniso8601"
 version = "9.0.1"
 description = "A library for parsing ISO 8601 strings."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -39,7 +37,6 @@ dev = ["black", "coverage", "isort", "pre-commit", "pyenchant", "pylint"]
 name = "apscheduler"
 version = "3.10.1"
 description = "In-process task scheduler with Cron-like capabilities"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -51,7 +48,7 @@ files = [
 pytz = "*"
 setuptools = ">=0.7"
 six = ">=1.4.0"
-tzlocal = ">=2.0,<3.0.0 || >=4.0.0"
+tzlocal = ">=2.0,<3.dev0 || >=4.dev0"
 
 [package.extras]
 doc = ["sphinx", "sphinx-rtd-theme"]
@@ -69,7 +66,6 @@ zookeeper = ["kazoo"]
 name = "attrs"
 version = "22.2.0"
 description = "Classes Without Boilerplate"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -88,7 +84,6 @@ tests-no-zope = ["cloudpickle", "cloudpickle", "hypothesis", "hypothesis", "mypy
 name = "bandit"
 version = "1.7.2"
 description = "Security oriented static analyser for python code."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -111,7 +106,6 @@ yaml = ["PyYAML"]
 name = "bcrypt"
 version = "4.0.1"
 description = "Modern password hashing for your software and your servers"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -146,7 +140,6 @@ typecheck = ["mypy"]
 name = "black"
 version = "22.12.0"
 description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -181,7 +174,6 @@ uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
 name = "blinker"
 version = "1.6.2"
 description = "Fast, simple object-to-object and broadcast signaling"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -193,7 +185,6 @@ files = [
 name = "certifi"
 version = "2022.12.7"
 description = "Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -205,7 +196,6 @@ files = [
 name = "cffi"
 version = "1.15.1"
 description = "Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -282,7 +272,6 @@ pycparser = "*"
 name = "cfgv"
 version = "3.3.1"
 description = "Validate configuration and produce human readable error messages."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6.1"
 files = [
@@ -294,7 +283,6 @@ files = [
 name = "charset-normalizer"
 version = "3.1.0"
 description = "The Real First Universal Charset Detector. Open, modern and actively maintained alternative to Chardet."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7.0"
 files = [
@@ -379,7 +367,6 @@ files = [
 name = "click"
 version = "8.1.3"
 description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -394,7 +381,6 @@ colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
 name = "clickclick"
 version = "20.10.2"
 description = "Click utility functions"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -410,7 +396,6 @@ PyYAML = ">=3.11"
 name = "colorama"
 version = "0.4.6"
 description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7"
 files = [
@@ -422,7 +407,6 @@ files = [
 name = "configparser"
 version = "5.3.0"
 description = "Updated configparser from stdlib for earlier Pythons."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -438,7 +422,6 @@ testing = ["flake8 (<5)", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=0.3.7)", "pytest-chec
 name = "connexion"
 version = "2.14.1"
 description = "Connexion - API first applications with OpenAPI/Swagger and Flask"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -469,7 +452,6 @@ tests = ["MarkupSafe (>=0.23)", "aiohttp (>=2.3.10,<4)", "aiohttp-jinja2 (>=0.14
 name = "coverage"
 version = "6.5.0"
 description = "Code coverage measurement for Python"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -535,7 +517,6 @@ toml = ["tomli"]
 name = "cryptography"
 version = "41.0.1"
 description = "cryptography is a package which provides cryptographic recipes and primitives to Python developers."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -577,7 +558,6 @@ test-randomorder = ["pytest-randomly"]
 name = "dateparser"
 version = "1.1.8"
 description = "Date parsing library designed to parse dates from HTML pages"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -600,7 +580,6 @@ langdetect = ["langdetect"]
 name = "distlib"
 version = "0.3.6"
 description = "Distribution utilities"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -612,7 +591,6 @@ files = [
 name = "dparse"
 version = "0.6.2"
 description = "A parser for Python dependency files"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -632,7 +610,6 @@ pipenv = ["pipenv"]
 name = "exceptiongroup"
 version = "1.1.1"
 description = "Backport of PEP 654 (exception groups)"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -647,7 +624,6 @@ test = ["pytest (>=6)"]
 name = "execnet"
 version = "1.9.0"
 description = "execnet: rapid multi-Python deployment"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -662,7 +638,6 @@ testing = ["pre-commit"]
 name = "filelock"
 version = "3.11.0"
 description = "A platform independent file lock."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -678,7 +653,6 @@ testing = ["covdefaults (>=2.3)", "coverage (>=7.2.2)", "diff-cover (>=7.5)", "p
 name = "flask"
 version = "2.2.5"
 description = "A simple framework for building complex web applications."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -700,7 +674,6 @@ dotenv = ["python-dotenv"]
 name = "flask-admin"
 version = "1.6.1"
 description = "Simple and extensible admin interface framework for Flask"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -720,7 +693,6 @@ azure = ["azure-storage-blob"]
 name = "flask-bcrypt"
 version = "1.0.1"
 description = "Brcrypt hashing for Flask."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -736,7 +708,6 @@ Flask = "*"
 name = "flask-cors"
 version = "3.0.10"
 description = "A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -752,7 +723,6 @@ Six = "*"
 name = "flask-jwt-extended"
 version = "4.4.4"
 description = "Extended JWT integration with Flask"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7,<4"
 files = [
@@ -772,7 +742,6 @@ asymmetric-crypto = ["cryptography (>=3.3.1)"]
 name = "flask-mail"
 version = "0.9.1"
 description = "Flask extension for sending email"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -787,7 +756,6 @@ Flask = "*"
 name = "flask-marshmallow"
 version = "0.15.0"
 description = "Flask + marshmallow for beautiful APIs"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -810,7 +778,6 @@ tests = ["flask-sqlalchemy (>=3.0.0)", "marshmallow-sqlalchemy (>=0.28.2)", "moc
 name = "flask-migrate"
 version = "4.0.4"
 description = "SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -827,7 +794,6 @@ Flask-SQLAlchemy = ">=1.0"
 name = "flask-restful"
 version = "0.3.9"
 description = "Simple framework for creating REST APIs"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -848,7 +814,6 @@ docs = ["sphinx"]
 name = "flask-simple-crypt"
 version = "0.3.3"
 description = "Flask extension based on simple-crypt that allows simple, secure encryption and decryption for Python."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -864,7 +829,6 @@ pycryptodome = "*"
 name = "flask-sqlalchemy"
 version = "3.0.3"
 description = "Add SQLAlchemy support to your Flask application."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -880,7 +844,6 @@ SQLAlchemy = ">=1.4.18"
 name = "gitdb"
 version = "4.0.10"
 description = "Git Object Database"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -895,7 +858,6 @@ smmap = ">=3.0.1,<6"
 name = "gitpython"
 version = "3.1.31"
 description = "GitPython is a Python library used to interact with Git repositories"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -910,7 +872,6 @@ gitdb = ">=4.0.1,<5"
 name = "greenlet"
 version = "2.0.2"
 description = "Lightweight in-process concurrent programming"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -984,7 +945,6 @@ test = ["objgraph", "psutil"]
 name = "gunicorn"
 version = "20.1.0"
 description = "WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -1005,7 +965,6 @@ tornado = ["tornado (>=0.2)"]
 name = "identify"
 version = "2.5.22"
 description = "File identification library for Python"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1020,7 +979,6 @@ license = ["ukkonen"]
 name = "idna"
 version = "3.4"
 description = "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -1032,7 +990,6 @@ files = [
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 version = "0.5.1"
 description = "A port of Ruby on Rails inflector to Python"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -1044,7 +1001,6 @@ files = [
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 version = "2.0.0"
 description = "brain-dead simple config-ini parsing"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1056,7 +1012,6 @@ files = [
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 version = "2.1.2"
 description = "Safely pass data to untrusted environments and back."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1068,7 +1023,6 @@ files = [
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 version = "3.1.2"
 description = "A very fast and expressive template engine."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1086,7 +1040,6 @@ i18n = ["Babel (>=2.7)"]
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 version = "4.17.3"
 description = "An implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1106,7 +1059,6 @@ format-nongpl = ["fqdn", "idna", "isoduration", "jsonpointer (>1.13)", "rfc3339-
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 description = "Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, != 3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -1199,7 +1151,6 @@ source = ["Cython (>=0.29.7)"]
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-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1219,7 +1170,6 @@ testing = ["pytest"]
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 version = "2.1.2"
 description = "Safely add untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1279,7 +1229,6 @@ files = [
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 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1300,7 +1249,6 @@ tests = ["pytest", "pytz", "simplejson"]
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-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -1315,7 +1263,6 @@ marshmallow = ">=2.0.0"
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 version = "0.29.0"
 description = "SQLAlchemy integration with the marshmallow (de)serialization library"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1338,7 +1285,6 @@ tests = ["pytest", "pytest-lazy-fixture (>=0.6.2)"]
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 version = "1.2.0"
 description = "Optional static typing for Python"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
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 version = "1.0.0"
 description = "Type system extensions for programs checked with the mypy type checker."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
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 [[package]]
-name = "mysql-connector-python"
-version = "8.0.32"
-description = "MySQL driver written in Python"
-category = "main"
+name = "mysqlclient"
+version = "2.2.0"
+description = "Python interface to MySQL"
 optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
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 description = "Typing stubs for pytz"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2679,7 +2512,6 @@ files = [
 name = "types-pyyaml"
 version = "6.0.12.9"
 description = "Typing stubs for PyYAML"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2691,7 +2523,6 @@ files = [
 name = "types-requests"
 version = "2.28.11.17"
 description = "Typing stubs for requests"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2706,7 +2537,6 @@ types-urllib3 = "<1.27"
 name = "types-urllib3"
 version = "1.26.25.10"
 description = "Typing stubs for urllib3"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2718,7 +2548,6 @@ files = [
 name = "types-werkzeug"
 version = "1.0.9"
 description = "Typing stubs for Werkzeug"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2730,7 +2559,6 @@ files = [
 name = "typing-extensions"
 version = "4.5.0"
 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.7+"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2742,7 +2570,6 @@ files = [
 name = "tzdata"
 version = "2023.3"
 description = "Provider of IANA time zone data"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2"
 files = [
@@ -2754,7 +2581,6 @@ files = [
 name = "tzlocal"
 version = "4.3"
 description = "tzinfo object for the local timezone"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2773,7 +2599,6 @@ devenv = ["black", "check-manifest", "flake8", "pyroma", "pytest (>=4.3)", "pyte
 name = "urllib3"
 version = "1.26.15"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
 files = [
@@ -2790,7 +2615,6 @@ socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 name = "virtualenv"
 version = "20.21.0"
 description = "Virtual Python Environment builder"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2811,7 +2635,6 @@ test = ["covdefaults (>=2.2.2)", "coverage (>=7.1)", "coverage-enable-subprocess
 name = "werkzeug"
 version = "2.3.4"
 description = "The comprehensive WSGI web application library."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -2829,7 +2652,6 @@ watchdog = ["watchdog (>=2.3)"]
 name = "wtforms"
 version = "3.0.1"
 description = "Form validation and rendering for Python web development."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2847,7 +2669,6 @@ email = ["email-validator"]
 name = "xdoctest"
 version = "1.1.1"
 description = "A rewrite of the builtin doctest module"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -2876,4 +2697,4 @@ tests-strict = ["codecov (==2.0.15)", "pytest (==4.6.0)", "pytest (==4.6.0)", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.12"
-content-hash = "de301503903ea357212400d7cf27feffe5a73b2733c0b4f2c39cabf3de3b9bc7"
+content-hash = "755b30cee83d139e40dcb609fc3417f26fc2a9eab24a41fe15174d4e24d739c2"
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
index 2e823a57..a48186ab 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ SpiffWorkflow = {git = "https://github.com/sartography/SpiffWorkflow", rev = "ma
 # SpiffWorkflow = {develop = true, path = "../../SpiffWorkflow/" }
 sentry-sdk = "^1.10"
 # sphinx-autoapi = "^2.0"
-mysql-connector-python = "*"
 pytest-flask = "^1.2.0"
 pytest-flask-sqlalchemy = "^1.1.0"
 psycopg2 = "^2.9.3"
@@ -85,6 +84,10 @@ marshmallow-sqlalchemy = "^0.29.0"
 spiff-element-units = "^0.3.0"
 pytest-xdist = "^3.3.1"
 
+# mysqlclient lib is deemed better than the mysql-connector-python lib by sqlalchemy
+# https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/dialects/mysql.html#module-sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.mysqlconnector
+mysqlclient = "^2.2.0"
+
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pytest = "^7.1.2"
 coverage = {extras = ["toml"], version = "^6.1"}
diff --git a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/config/__init__.py b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/config/__init__.py
index f8aac797..0b631a1d 100644
--- a/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/config/__init__.py
+++ b/spiffworkflow-backend/src/spiffworkflow_backend/config/__init__.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def setup_database_configs(app: Flask) -> None:
             db_pswd = app.config.get("SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_PASSWORD")
             if db_pswd is None:
                 db_pswd = ""
-            app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = f"mysql+mysqlconnector://root:{db_pswd}@localhost/{database_name}"
+            app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = f"mysql+mysqldb://root:{db_pswd}@127.0.0.1/{database_name}"
     else:
         app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = app.config.get("SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_DATABASE_URI")