diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0e8180d17..9e0a0a7b9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 atomicwrites >= 1.3.0
-beanie~=1.7
+beanie>=2.0.1
 click >=7
 cryptography < 43.0.0
 Deprecated == 1.2.0
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ paramiko
 pika>=1.2.0
 Pillow >= 7.2.0
 pydantic >= 2.0.0
+pymongo >= 4.15.5
 python-magic
 python-multipart
 pyyaml
diff --git a/src/ocrd_network/database.py b/src/ocrd_network/database.py
index a29e5c39d..d29db011f 100644
--- a/src/ocrd_network/database.py
+++ b/src/ocrd_network/database.py
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@
 """
 from beanie import init_beanie
 from beanie.operators import In
-from motor.motor_asyncio import AsyncIOMotorClient
 from pathlib import Path
-from pymongo import MongoClient, uri_parser as mongo_uri_parser
+from pymongo import AsyncMongoClient, MongoClient, uri_parser as mongo_uri_parser
 from re import sub as re_sub
 from typing import List
 from uuid import uuid4
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@
 
 
 async def initiate_database(db_url: str, db_name: str = 'ocrd'):
-    client = AsyncIOMotorClient(db_url)
+    client = AsyncMongoClient(db_url)
     await init_beanie(
         database=client.get_default_database(default=db_name),
         document_models=[DBProcessorJob, DBWorkflowJob, DBWorkspace, DBWorkflowScript]