diff --git a/pkg/drivers/mysql/mysql.go b/pkg/drivers/mysql/mysql.go
index f9745630..839a0d48 100644
--- a/pkg/drivers/mysql/mysql.go
+++ b/pkg/drivers/mysql/mysql.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ var (
 	schemaMigrations = []string{
 		`ALTER TABLE kine MODIFY COLUMN id BIGINT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL UNIQUE, MODIFY COLUMN create_revision BIGINT UNSIGNED, MODIFY COLUMN prev_revision BIGINT UNSIGNED`,
 	}
-	createDB = "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS "
+	createDB = "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `%s`;"
 )
 
 func New(ctx context.Context, dataSourceName string, tlsInfo tls.Config, connPoolConfig generic.ConnectionPoolConfig, metricsRegisterer prometheus.Registerer) (server.Backend, error) {
@@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ func createDBIfNotExist(dataSourceName string) error {
 	}
 
 	if !exists {
-		if _, err = db.Exec(createDB + dbName); err != nil {
+		stmt := fmt.Sprintf(createDB, dbName)
+		logrus.Tracef("SETUP EXEC : %v", util.Stripped(stmt))
+		if _, err = db.Exec(stmt); err != nil {
 			if mysqlError, ok := err.(*mysql.MySQLError); !ok || mysqlError.Number != 1049 {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -188,7 +190,7 @@ func createDBIfNotExist(dataSourceName string) error {
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
-			if _, err = db.Exec(createDB + dbName); err != nil {
+			if _, err = db.Exec(stmt); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/drivers/pgsql/pgsql.go b/pkg/drivers/pgsql/pgsql.go
index 7928d3b3..bd04d522 100644
--- a/pkg/drivers/pgsql/pgsql.go
+++ b/pkg/drivers/pgsql/pgsql.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package pgsql
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"regexp"
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ var (
 	schemaMigrations = []string{
 		`ALTER TABLE kine ALTER COLUMN id SET DATA TYPE BIGINT, ALTER COLUMN create_revision SET DATA TYPE BIGINT, ALTER COLUMN prev_revision SET DATA TYPE BIGINT; ALTER SEQUENCE kine_id_seq AS BIGINT`,
 	}
-	createDB = "CREATE DATABASE "
+	createDB = `CREATE DATABASE "%s";`
 )
 
 func New(ctx context.Context, dataSourceName string, tlsInfo tls.Config, connPoolConfig generic.ConnectionPoolConfig, metricsRegisterer prometheus.Registerer) (server.Backend, error) {
@@ -165,9 +166,8 @@ func createDBIfNotExist(dataSourceName string) error {
 		logrus.Warnf("failed to check existence of database %s, going to attempt create: %v", dbName, err)
 	}
 
-	stmt := createDB + dbName + ";"
-
 	if !exists {
+		stmt := fmt.Sprintf(createDB, dbName)
 		logrus.Tracef("SETUP EXEC : %v", util.Stripped(stmt))
 		if _, err = db.Exec(stmt); err != nil {
 			logrus.Warnf("failed to create database %s: %v", dbName, err)
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ func prepareDSN(dataSourceName string, tlsInfo tls.Config) (string, error) {
 		u.Path = "/kubernetes"
 	}
 
+	// makes quoting database and schema reference the same unquoted identifier
+	// See: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-syntax-lexical.html#:~:text=unquoted%20names%20are%20always%20folded%20to%20lower%20case
+	u.Path = strings.ToLower(u.Path)
+
 	queryMap, err := url.ParseQuery(u.RawQuery)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err