diff --git a/template/xwiki/hibernate.cfg.xml b/template/xwiki/hibernate.cfg.xml
index 7ed2e10f9f89634e8a87e20fdd6331b70cfe380d..21b2dbec2bb72274b39415cb401a447431a0b07e 100644
--- a/template/xwiki/hibernate.cfg.xml
+++ b/template/xwiki/hibernate.cfg.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@
     <property name="connection.username">replaceuser</property>
     <property name="connection.password">replacepassword</property>
     <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
-    <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>
     <property name="dbcp.poolPreparedStatements">true</property>
     <property name="dbcp.maxOpenPreparedStatements">20</property>