diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7dcabb03d..a6f943f65 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+          <groupId>com.splicemachine</groupId>
+          <artifactId>splice-hibernate-dialect</artifactId>
+          <version>2.6.0.1726-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
@@ -133,7 +138,7 @@
         <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
           <execution>
-            <!-- Spring Boot Actuator displays build-related information 
+            <!-- Spring Boot Actuator displays build-related information
               if a META-INF/build-info.properties file is present -->
             <goals>
               <goal>build-info</goal>
@@ -166,7 +171,7 @@
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
-      <!-- Spring Boot Actuator displays build-related information if a git.properties 
+      <!-- Spring Boot Actuator displays build-related information if a git.properties
         file is present at the classpath -->
       <plugin>
         <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index b38520e67..ccaf09680 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ spring.datasource.url=jdbc:splice://localhost:1527/splicedb;user=splice;password
 spring.datasource.username=splice
 spring.datasource.password=admin
 spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.splicemachine.db.jdbc.ClientDriver
-spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.DerbyTenSevenDialect
+spring.jpa.database-platform=com.splicemachine.SpliceMachineDialect
 # Web
 spring.thymeleaf.mode=HTML