diff --git a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/database.rs b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/database.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 43c4ab8..0000000
--- a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/database.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-use sea_orm::{DatabaseConnection, Database};
-use mediarepo_core::error::{RepoDatabaseResult};
-
-pub struct RepoDatabase {
-    connection: DatabaseConnection,
-}
-
-impl RepoDatabase {
-    /// Creates a new repo database from an existing connection
-    pub(crate) fn new(connection: DatabaseConnection) -> Self {
-        Self {connection}
-    }
-
-    /// Creates a new Repo Database Connection
-    pub(crate) async fn connect<S: AsRef<str>>(uri: S) -> RepoDatabaseResult<Self> {
-        let connection = Database::connect(uri.as_ref()).await?;
-
-        Ok(Self::new(connection))
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/lib.rs b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/lib.rs
index cbb6969..60f2078 100644
--- a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/lib.rs
+++ b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 use mediarepo_core::error::{RepoDatabaseResult};
 use crate::database::RepoDatabase;
+use sea_orm::{DatabaseConnection, Database};
+
 
-pub mod database;
 pub mod entities;
 
 /// Connects to the database, runs migrations and returns the RepoDatabase wrapper type
-pub async fn get_database<S: AsRef<str>>(uri: S) -> RepoDatabaseResult<RepoDatabase> {
+pub async fn get_database<S: AsRef<str>>(uri: S) -> RepoDatabaseResult<DatabaseConnection> {
     migrate(uri.as_ref()).await?;
-    RepoDatabase::connect(uri).await
+    let conn = Database::connect(uri).await?;
+
+    Ok(conn)
 }
 
 async fn migrate(uri: &str) -> RepoDatabaseResult<()> {