diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4b6fd187..4b71f17c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,16 +33,16 @@
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
-            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-            <scope>runtime</scope>
-        </dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+			<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+			<scope>runtime</scope>
+		</dependency>
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
 			<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
-			<version>1.18.12</version>
+			<version>1.18.28</version>
 			<scope>provided</scope>
 		</dependency>
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/_application.properties b/src/main/resources/_application.properties
index d7d7b14c..63b186ab 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/_application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/_application.properties
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none
-spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/blogapi?useSSL=false&serverTimezone=UTC&allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true
+spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb
+spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
 spring.datasource.username=root
 spring.datasource.password=root
-spring.jpa.show-sql=true
-spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
+spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
 app.jwtSecret=secret
 # Expiration in milliseconds - 1 Hour
 app.jwtExpirationInMs=3600000
 spring.jackson.serialization.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS=false
 spring.jackson.time-zone=UTC
-cors.allowedOrings=*
+cors.allowedOrigins=*
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yml b/src/main/resources/application.yml
index ef6d7e3d..fe09d359 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 spring:
   datasource:
-    url: jdbc:mysql://blogapi-db:3306/blogapi?useSSL=false&serverTimezone=UTC&allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true
+    url: jdbc:h2:mem:testdb
     username: root
     password: root
   jpa:
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ spring:
     show-sql: true
     properties:
       hibernate:
-        dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
+        dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
   jackson:
     serialization:
       WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS: false