diff --git a/asdc-controller/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/asdc-controller/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index 2d0a2ac..beb40e5 100644
--- a/asdc-controller/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/asdc-controller/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -4,15 +4,13 @@
 
 spring:
   datasource:
-    jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/catalogdb
-    username: ${DB_USERNAME}
-    password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
-    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
-    dbcp2: 
-      initial-size: 5
-      max-total: 20 
-      validation-query: select 1
-      test-on-borrow: true 
+    hikari:
+      jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/catalogdb
+      username: ${DB_USERNAME}
+      password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
+      driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
+      pool-name: catdb-pool
+      registerMbeans: true
   jpa:
       show-sql: true
       hibernate:
@@ -23,10 +21,14 @@
 
 request:
   datasource:
-    jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
-    username: ${DB_USERNAME}
-    password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
-    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver  
+    hikari:
+      jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
+      username: ${DB_USERNAME}
+      password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
+      driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
+      pool-name: reqdb-pool
+      registerMbeans: true
+      
 #Actuator
 management:
   endpoints: